Tieling, a prefecture level city under the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province, is located in the north of Liaoning Province, in the middle of Songliao Plain. The terrain is generally high, middle and low in the east, high in the north and low in the south, belonging to temperate continental monsoon climate; It is adjacent to Shenyang and Fushun in the south, Siping in the north, Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County in Fushun City and Liaoyuan in Jilin Province in the east, and Faku, Kangping and Tongliao in Inner Mongolia in the west; It has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts, 3 counties and 2 county-level cities, with a total area of 13000 square kilometers; By the end of 2021, the city has a total population of 2.827 million.

Tieling City is known as the "hometown of sports champions". Since 1984, it has sent nearly 600 sports reserve talents to excellent sports teams above the provincial level. Tieling is a national sports training base, among which Xifeng County and Kaiyuan City are rated as "National Advanced Sports Counties"; Tieling is the "hometown of sketch art". It has a comedy sketch team that combines editing and directing. Its unique style of creating and performing comedy sketches has become a brand of Tieling. In 2019, it was listed as the second batch of national agricultural product quality safety counties.

In 2021, Tieling's GDP will reach 71.6 billion yuan, an increase of 6.1% over the previous year at comparable prices.