Chengguan Town () is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
situated in the western side of
Wuqing District
Wuqing District () is a district of Tianjin, bordering Hebei province to the north and west, Beijing Municipality to the northwest, Baodi District to the northeast, and Beichen District and Xiqing District to the southeast/south.
Administrative ...
,
Tianjin
Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...
,
China
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. It shares border with
Dawangguzhuang and
Baigutun Towns in the north,
Sicundian Town in the east,
Dongmaquan Town in the south, and
Beiwang Town in the west. As of 2010, it had a total population of 27,050.
The name Chengguan () came from the town's historic location as the administrative center of Wuqing County during the
Ming
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...
and
Qing Dynasties.
Geography
Chengguan Town lies on Tianjin's western border with
Langfang,
Hebei
Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...
. Cuilang Highway runs east–west through it. The town has an average elevation of 10 meters above the sea level.
History
Administrative divisions
By 2022, Chengguan Town was composed of the following 30
villages:
* Dongjie (东街)
* Beijie (北街)
* Xijie (西街)
* Lirenjie (里仁街)
* Xinanjie (西南街)
* Dongnanjie (东南街)
* Nanyuan (南园)
* Yangzhuang (杨庄)
* Lizhuang (李庄)
* Xuzhuang (许庄)
* Yinyao (尹窑)
* Tiangutun (田古屯)
* Caoci (草茨)
* Shazhuang (沙庄)
* Dongzhangying (东张营)
* Xizhangying (西张营)
* Houzhuang (后庄)
* Xiaotun (小屯)
* Wulidian (五里店)
* Liulintun (柳林屯)
* Xihangzhuang (西韩庄)
* Baozhuang (薄庄)
* Yuanxinzhuang (袁辛庄)
* Yangzhonghe (杨仲河)
* Wuliangmiao (无梁庙)
* Nantaoyuan (南桃园)
* Xiaotaoyuan (小桃园)
* Dataoyuan (大桃园)
* Balizhuang (八里庄)
* Shahetun (沙河屯)
See also
*
List of township-level divisions of Tianjin
References
Towns in Tianjin
Wuqing District
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