Liqiao Town () is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
on the south side of
Shunyi District
Shunyi District () is an administrative district of Beijing, located to the northeast of the city's urban core. As of 2014, the population of the district is around 983,000, of which approximately 601,000 have local residency permits. The Beiji ...
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Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
. It shares border with
Renhe Town in the north, Lisui Town in the east,
Songzhuang Town in the south, and
Tianzhu Town in the west. The town had 97,059 people residing within it in 2020.
The name Liqiao used to be Lijiaqiao () due to its concentration of people with the last name
Li.
History
Administrative divisions
In 2021, Liqiao Town was composed of 35 subdivisions, more specifically 4
communities
A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...
and 31
villages:
Gallery
File:7634639 at Liqiao (20200116152948).jpg, Bus on the Litian Road, 2020
File:Beijing Guoce International Convention and Exhibition Center (20220331162622).jpg, Beijing Guoce International Convention and Exhibition Center, 2022
File:China Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology, Shunyi (20220919130102).jpg, China Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology, 2022
File:Jingping Expressway west of Exit 17 (20221016133636).jpg, Jingping Expressway on the west of the town, 2022
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Beijing
This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divi ...
References
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Towns in Beijing
Shunyi District