Kaijiang County () is a county in the east of

Sichuan Province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

, China. It is under the administration of

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 ...

city. It has a population of 550,000, of which 87,000 in the urban area. Kaijiang was established in 553 and until 1914 it was named Xinning County (新宁县). The county is known for breeding

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and

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s, and for

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production. Culturally it has a strong tradition of feng shui.

Administrative divisions

The county seat is Xinning Town. Kaijiang is subdivided in:

Climate

References

County-level divisions of Sichuan Dazhou {{Sichuan-geo-stub