Huanren Manchu Autonomous County (,

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) an ...

: ; Mölendroff: huwanren manju beye dasangga siyan), formerly Huairen County (), is a county under the administration of

Benxi Benxi (, ) is a prefecture-level city located in the east of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, south-southeast of the provincial capital Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,326,018 (1,709,538 in 2010) whom 809,655 ...

City, in eastern

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province, People's Republic of China, bordering

Jilin Jilin (; Postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three Provinces of China, provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea (Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, R ...

to the east. It is also one of 11

autonomous counties Autonomous counties () and autonomous banners () are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. The two are essentially identical except in name. There are 117 autonomous counties and three autonomous banners. The latter are f ...

and one of 117 autonomous counties nationally. As a

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, Huanren was established in 1877. It was reorganised as an autonomous county in 1989 with approval of the State Council. The county covers and has 293,505 population (2000 census), and

Huanren Town Huanren () is a town in and the seat of Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, in the eastern Liaoning province, China, It is located about to the southwest of Tonghua Tonghua () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jilin province, Peo ...

is its seat.

Administrative divisions

Huanren County is divided into 13 Subdivisions: one

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, eight

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and four townships including one ethnic township. The main nationalities are

, Han, Hui and

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. Subdistrict: *Baguacheng () Towns: * Huanren () * Gucheng () *Erpengdianzi () *Shajianzi () *Wulidianzi () *Hualai () *Muyuzi () *Balidianzi () *Pulebao () Townships: *Xiangyang () *Yahe () *Heigou () *Beidianzi ()

Climate

Huanren has a

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscil ...

-influenced

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freez ...

( Köppen ''Dwa'') with hot and humid summers and rather long, cold, and very dry winters. More than two-thirds of the annual rainfall occurs from June thru August. Monthly 24-hour average temperatures range from in January to in July, for an annual average of .

Tourism

Wunu Mountain City, a

Goguryeo Goguryeo (37 BC–668 AD) ( ) also called Goryeo (), was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Northeast China. At its peak of power, Goguryeo controlled mos ...

site found in this county, is part of the combined

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that also includes sites in

Ji'an, Jilin Ji'an (; formerly ) is a county-level city in the southwestern part of Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It is administered by the prefecture-level city of Tonghua and is the southernmost county-level division in the province. Ji'an ha ...

References

External links

Official website of Huanren County government
County-level divisions of Liaoning Manchu autonomous counties Benxi {{Liaoning-geo-stub