Jilin City is a prefecture-level city located in Jilin Province in China.It has a population of 1,985,000 (metropolitan 4,514,000)[1] and a metropolitan area of 27,120 km.Jilin is the only major city with a homologous name to the province which it is located.Jilin City is also called River City which was originated from one sentence,"Chinese:连樯接舰屯江城",of a poem written by Kangxi Emperor when he was visiting Jilin City in 1674.The alias name is also because of the Songhua River surrounding almost the whole city.