Chengkou County () is a

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Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

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, China, and is the northernmost

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of Chongqing, bordering the provinces of

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and

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to the north and west, respectively. To the northeast, the county borders Zhengping County, Pingli County,

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and

Ziyang County Ziyang County () is a county in the south of Shaanxi province, China, bordering Chongqing to the southeast and Sichuan to the southwest. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ankang. Administrative divisions As 2019, Z ...

Ankang Ankang () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shaanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hubei province to the east, Chongqing municipality to the south, and Sichuan province to the southwest. History The settl ...

. To the west, the county borders

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and

Xuanhan County Xuanhan County () is a county in the northeast of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Chongqing to the east. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Dazhou. According to recent population census, Xuanhan county has a popul ...

Dazhou Dazhou () is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. As of 2020 census, Dazhou was home to 5,385,422 inhabitants whom 1,850,869 lived in the ...

. To the south, the county borders Chongqing's Kaizhou District and

Wuxi County Wuxi County () is a county of Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Hubei to the northeast and east. Sitting at the upper reaches of Daning River and the southern slopes of the central Daba Mountai ...

Administrative divisions

Chengkou County is composed of two subdistricts, ten towns, and thirteen townships. It formerly had 7

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and 17

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. Two subdistricts (街道): * Gecheng Subdistrict (, before 2009 Gecheng Town ()), Fuxing Subdistrict () Ten towns (镇): *

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(),

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(), Miaoba (), Mingtong (), Xiuqi (), Gaoguan (), Gaoyan (, before 2012 Gaoyan Township ()), Dong'an (, before 2014 Dong'an Township ()), Xianyi (, before 2014 Xianyi Township ()), Gaonan (, before 2014 Gaonan Township ()) Thirteen townships (乡): * Longtian Township (), Beiping Township (), Zuolan Township (), Yanhe Township (), Shuanghe Township (), Liaozi Township (), Jiming Township (), Zhouxi Township (), Mingzhong Township (), Zhiping Township (), Lantian Township (),

Houping Township Houping Miao and Tuzi Ethnic Township (后坪苗族土家族乡) is an ethnic township in Wulong County of the Chongqing Municipality of China The area is noted for its landscape and geological features known as the Wulong Karst and the Er Wang D ...

(), Heyu Township ()

Climate

References

External links

Official website of Chengkou County Government
County-level divisions of Chongqing {{Chongqing-geo-stub