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Fengkai County is a county in western Guangdong Province, China, under the administration of the
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-level
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of Zhaoqing. It was formed in 1961 from the merger of Fengchuan and , which were formerly
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as Fungchuan (Fungchun, Fungshun) and Hoikin respectively.


History

About 140,000 years ago, there were human beings settled in nowadays fengkai. Feng Prefecture or Fengzhou was a
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of the
Tang Tang or TANG most often refers to: * Tang dynasty * Tang (drink mix) Tang or TANG may also refer to: Chinese states and dynasties * Jin (Chinese state) (11th century – 376 BC), a state during the Spring and Autumn period, called Tang (唐) b ...
and Song empires. Under the
Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...
, Fengchuan and Kaijian made up part of the commandery of Zhaoqing.


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* , reprinted 2000. Zhaoqing County-level divisions of Guangdong {{Guangdong-geo-stub