Huanggu District () is one of ten

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of the

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Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

, the capital of the Chinese province of

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. It borders

Shenbei New Area Shenbei New Area () is a development zone and one of ten districts of the prefecture-level city of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province, Northeast China, and forms part of the northern suburbs. It borders Dongling District to the southea ...

to the north,

Dadong Dadong District () is one of ten districts of the prefecture-level city of Shenyang, the capital of the Chinese province of Liaoning. It borders Shenbei New Area to the north, Dongling to the east, Shenhe to the south, and Huanggu to the west. ...

to the east,

Shenhe The Shenhe District () is one of ten districts of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Shenhe serves as the central district of Shenyang and currently hosts the seat of the City Government. It borders the districts of Da ...

to the southeast, Heping to the south, Tiexi to the southwest, and

Yuhong Yuhong District () is one of ten districts of the prefecture-level city of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province, Northeast China, and forms part of the northwestern and western suburbs. It borders Shenbei New Area to the northeast, Huanggu D ...

to the west.

Toponymy

The district is named after Huanggutun ("tun" means village), where the

Huanggutun Incident The Huanggutun incident (), also known as the , was the assassination of the Fengtian warlord and Generalissimo of the Military Government of China Zhang Zuolin near Shenyang on 4 June 1928. Zhang was killed when his personal train was destroy ...

of 1928 took place. Although the

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used to write the name of the district mean "royal aunt", the name is actually a transliteration of (, , 1605–1643), the Manchu Prince Jian of the First Rank whose tomb was in the area.

Politics

Huanggu District hosts the seat of the Provincial Government of Liaoning.

Administrative divisions

Huanggu District Govenment Headquarters 359

Huanggu has twelve

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() * Shouquan Subdistrict () * Santaizi Subdistrict () * Minglian Subdistrict () *

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() * Huanghe Subdistrict () * Lingbei Subdistrict () * Huashan Subdistrict () * Xinle Subdistrict () * Sandongqiao Subdistrict () * Shelita Subdistrict () * Beita Subdistrict () *

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Education

The main campus of the

Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine or LNUTCM () is a university in Liaoning Province, China, with its main campus in Huanggu District, Shenyang and a branch campus in Dalian and an additional campus in Benxi Benxi (, ) is a pr ...

(LNUTCM) is in this district.History
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. Retrieved on July 24, 2016. "Main campus: No. 79 Chongshan Eastern Road, Huanggu District, Shenyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China. Post code 110847"

Visitor attractions

The district is the site of Beiling park, the large historical mausoleum of

Qing dynasty 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-speak ...

emperor

Huang Taiji Hong Taiji (28 November 1592 – 21 September 1643), also rendered as Huang Taiji and sometimes referred to as Abahai in Western literature, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizong of Qing, was the second khan of the Later Jin ...

, as well as the Liaoning Mansion Hotel.

References

External links

County-level divisions of Liaoning Shenyang {{Liaoning-geo-stub