Being a peninsula city surrounded by seas on its three sides and known as“Window of the Northeast" and“Pearl of the North", Dalian is located in the southernmost tip of Northeast China, near the Yellow Sea in the east and the Bohai Sea in the west, facing the Shandong Peninsula in the south across the sea and connecting with the northeast mainland in the north. The whole area of the city of Dalian is 1 2573 .85 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 2 414. 96 square kilometers, having a population of 5 900 000, among which the urban population is 2 530 000. The coastline of the entire area of Dalian is as long as 1 906 kilometers, accounting for 73% of the total length of the coastline of Liaoning Province, of which land coastlines are 1 288 kilometers long and waterfront lines are as long as 618 kilometers. 

大连位于中国东北的最南端，东临黄海，西邻渤海，南与山东半岛隔海相望，北与东北大陆相连，是一座三面环海的半岛城市，素有“东北之窗”、“北方明珠”之称。全市总面积1 2573. 85平方公里，其中市区面积2 414.96平方公里;人口590万，市区人口253万。大连全地区海岸线长1 906公里，占辽宁省海岸线总长度的73 %，其中陆地海岸线1 288公里，海岛岸线618公里。

Dalian municipality has jurisdiction over 6 districts，3 county-level cities and I county. Dalian Economic Development Zone, Dalian Free Trade Zone, Dalian Hi tech Industrial Zone and the Golden Pebble Beach (Jinshitan) National Holiday Re-sort are key zones that have been shaped since the time Dalian was open to the outside world, and thus, it is taking the lead in opening up to the outside world. 

大连市下属6区、3市和1个县。大连经济技术开发区、大连保税区、大连高新技术园区和大连金石滩国家旅游度假区是大连对外开放以来形成的重点区域，是对外开放的前沿阵地。

Being a peninsula city, Dalian has a warm temperate zone continental monsoon climate with the characteristics of oceanity. The weather here is pleasant, and the four seasons are distinct with the winter being not severely cold and without in-tense heat in summer. The average temperature of the year here is 10℃, and the total precipitation is 550~950 millimeters. In summer, especially, Dalian is a summer resort that one would yearn for. 

因为是半岛城市，大连具有海洋性特点的暖温带大陆性季风气候。气候宜人，冬无严寒、夏无酷暑、四季分明，年平均温度10℃，年降水量550~950毫米。尤其是夏天，大连成了令人向往的避暑胜地。

Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport has opened 7 international and 43 domestic airways, its scheduled flight communicating several times every day with Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong, etc.. inside the country, it has 3 national-level and 3 provincial-level highways. The routes of the airport extend in all directions, having the shipping intercourse with harbors of more than 150 foreign countries and districts. 

大连周水子国际机场己开通国际航线7条，国内航线43条，与京、沪、粤、等地每天都有数次航班来往。境内有国道公路3条，省级公路3条。航线四通八达，与150多个国家与地区的港口有航运往来。