Longguan, Hebei
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Longguan, formerly known as Longmen, 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 ...
in
Chicheng County Chicheng (), or Ch’ih-ch’eng, is a county under the administration of Zhangjiakou City, northwestern Hebei province, bordering Beijing to the southeast. The total area of the county is . The easternmost county-level division of Zhangjiakou, i ...
in northwestern
Hebei Province Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...
,
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, situated along
China National Highway 112 China National Highway 112 is a 1228 km ring road which runs outside Beijing (municipality). Route and distance See also * China National Highways {{Roads and Expressways of Beijing 112 112 may refer to: *112 (number), the natural ...
around east of downtown
Zhangjiakou Zhangjiakou (; ; ) also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southw ...
and southwest of the county seat as the crow flies. , it has 35 villages under its administration.


History

Under the name Longmen, the town was formerly the
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of a county under the administration of Xuanhua Prefecture during imperial times.


See also

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List of township-level divisions of Hebei This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Hebei, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divisions of ...


References

{{reflist Township-level divisions of Hebei