As of September 2020, Nanjing is a new first-tier city.

Nanjing, abbreviated as "Ning" and known as Jinling and Jiankang in ancient times, is the capital of Jiangsu Province, a sub-provincial city, a megacity, the core city of the Nanjing metropolitan circle, an important central city in the eastern region of China as determined by the State Council, an important scientific research and education base, and a comprehensive transportation hub. As of 2018, the city has 11 districts under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 6,587 square kilometers, and a built-up area of 817 square kilometers.In 2019, the resident population was 8.5.0 million people, with an urban population of 7.07.2 million people and an urbanization rate of 83.2 percent.

Nanjing is located in the east of China, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, near the river and the sea, is China's eastern theater headquarters, geographic coordinates for the latitude of 31 ° 14 ″ to 32 ° 37 ″, longitude 118 ° 22 ″ to 119 ° 14 ″, is the State Council's planning and positioning of the Yangtze River Delta radiation drive the development of the central and western regions of the important gateway city, but also the eastern coastal economic belt and the Yangtze River Economic Belt is an important node city of the strategic intersection of the It is also an important node city for the strategic intersection of the eastern coastal economic belt and the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

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Nanjing is part of the Ningzhen-Yangyang hilly region, dominated by low mountains and gentle hills, with the low mountains accounting for 3.5% of the total land area, the hills accounting for 4.3%, the hills accounting for 53%, and the plains, depressions and rivers and lakes accounting for 39.2%. Ningzhen mountain range and the old mountains in the north of the river stretches across the central part of the city, and in the south, there are the Qinhuai Basin hills and granite south boundary of the Hengshan Mountain, East Lushan.

Nanjing plane position of the north-south long, narrow east-west, into a positive north-south direction; 150 kilometers straight north-south, the central east-west width of 50 to 70 kilometers, the north and south ends of the east-west width of about 30 kilometers. The south is a geomorphologic complex composed of low mountains, granite, river valley plains, lakeshore plains and riverine land and other topographic units.