Heze

Heze (Chinese: è??æ³½; Hanyu Pinyin: Hézé) is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. The westernmost prefecture-level city in Shandong, it borders Jining to the east and the provinces of Henan and Anhui to the west and south respectively.

Heze is the largest center in China for the cultivation of the "national flower" peony, after which the Mudan District was named.

Heze is a city within a coal-mining area.