Shenyang (chn)

Shenyang

Shenyang ranks 723rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cádiz, Amritsar, and Ribeirão Preto. Memorable people born in Shenyang include Shunzhi Emperor, Hyeonjong of Joseon, and Seiji Ozawa. Memorable people who died in Shenyang include Zhang Zuolin, and Liu Xiaobo. Shenyang has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and social activists. Shenyang is located in China.

Shenyang, formerly known as Fengtian or by its Manchu name Mukden is a sub-provincial city in north-central Liaoning, China. It is the provincial capital of Liaoning and the province's most populous city with a population of 9,070,093 as of the 2020 census, also making it the largest city in Northeast China by urban population, and the second-largest by metropolitan population behind Harbin. The Shenyang metropolitan area is one of the major megalopolises in China, with a population of over 23 million. The city's administrative region includes the ten metropolitan districts of Shenyang, the county-level city of Xinmin, and the counties of Kangping and Faku. Read more on Wikipedia