As the capital of Northeast China's Jilin province, Changchun city is the political, economic and cultural center of Jilin.

Liaoyuan city sits in the central and southern part of Jilin province, the transitional zone between Changbai Mountains and the Songliao Plain.

Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture is under provincial jurisdiction and is the home of the Korean ethnic group.

This is in northwestern Jilin province, with Heilongjiang province to the north, Inner Mongolia to the west, and administers five counties and three development zones and has a population of 2.02 million.

Located in the southeast of Jilin province in Northeast China, Tonghua city covers an area of 15,600 square kilometers with a total population of 2.3 million -- 500,000 of whom comprise its urban population.

Siping, located in the center of Northeast Asia -- the prefecture-level city in China's northeastern Jilin province -- has a total of 14,000 square kilometers and a population of 3.2 million.

Songyuan, a prefecture-level city, sits in midwest Jilin province. It also lies in the triangle zone of Harbin, Changchun and Daqing cities.