Lianjiang County, belonging to Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, between latitude 26 ° 07′-26 ° 27′, longitude 119 ° 17′-120 ° 31′, east of the Taiwan Straits, west of the provincial capital of Fuzhou, 50 kilometers away from each other by land, the county has a total area of 4,280.15 square kilometers, of which the land east-west is 67.8 kilometers long and south-north is 36.5 kilometers wide, an area of 1,168.13 square kilometers; The sea area is 3112.02 square kilometers. According to the seventh census data, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Lianjiang County was 639,498 people.
Lianjiang County belongs to the remnants of the Wushu Mountain Range, with high hills stacked in the northwest and northeast in the middle and low mountains, with a high terrain that slopes down to the southeast, and a mountainous territory. Lianjiang County has a central subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, which is warm and humid, with abundant rainfall and an average annual temperature of 16.7─19.4℃.
As of September 2022, Lianjiang County has a total of 22 townships and 275 villages under its jurisdiction, and is the second largest county-level aquatic county in China, the first largest aquatic county in the province, and the hometown of Chinese kelp and Chinese abalone. 2013-2015 was awarded the "province's top ten counties in terms of county economic strength" for three consecutive years, and 2012-2018 was awarded the "province's top ten counties in terms of county economic development" for six consecutive years. "In 2021, Lianjiang County realized a GDP of 67.144 billion yuan, an increase of 7.2% over the previous year.