Lan County or Lanxian is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
under the administration of
Lüliang
Lüliang or Lyuliang () is a prefecture-level city in the west of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Shaanxi province across the Yellow River to the west, Jinzhong and the provincial capital of Taiyuan to the east, Linfen to ...
City, in west-central
Shanxi province, China.
History
Lanxian was formerly the seat of
Lan Prefecture Lanzhou or Lan Prefecture () was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China seated in modern Lan County in Shanxi, China. It existed (intermittently) from 623 to 1369.
Geography
The administrative region of Lanzhou in the Tang dynasty is in Shanxi. ...
, during which time it was known as Lanzhou.
Climate
References
External links
www.xzqh.org
County-level divisions of Shanxi
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