Anshan is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, about 92 kilometres south of th…Anshan is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, about 92 kilometres south of the provincial capital Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, it was Liaoning's third most populous city with a population of 3,325,372 people, over an area of about 9,270 km² spanning 133 km from east to the west. Its built-up area encompassing the 4 Anshan urban districts, the 4 out of 5 urban Liaoyang districts and Liaoyang county largely being conurbated, was home to 2,712,789 million inhabitants in 2020.