Ledu District () is a district of the city of
Haidong
Haidong (; Wylie: Haitung) is a prefecture-level city of Qinghai province in Western China. Its name literally means "east of the (Qinghai) Lake." On 8 February 2013 Haidong was upgraded from a prefecture () into a prefecture-level city. Haido ...
,
Qinghai
Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest ...
province, China. Nearby are
Ping'an District
Ping'an District () also known as Ping'anyi (), is an administrative district and the seat of the city of Haidong, in the east of Qinghai province of the People's Republic of China, located about east from Xining. Its postal code is 810600, and it ...
and the city of
Xining
Xining (; ), alternatively known as Sining, is the capital of Qinghai province in western China and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau.
The city was a commercial hub along the Northern Silk Road's Hexi Corridor for over 2000 years, and wa ...
. Ledu used to be named Nianbo county before 1929. The county dates back to 1724.
On 8 February 2013 Ledu was upgraded from a county into a district.
Ledu District is served by the
G6 Beijing–Lhasa Expressway
The Beijing–Tibet Expressway (), commonly abbreviated to Jingzang Expressway (), also known as Beijing–Lhasa Expressway (Jingla Expressway; ) or China National Expressway 6, is part of the Expressways of China, Chinese national expressway netwo ...
.
See also
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Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery The Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery () is a ceramics museum located in Ledu District, Qinghai Province, China. The museum opened in 2004 and has a collection of 37,925 objects, many of which are from the Neolithic period from Liwan tombs. I ...
References
External links
Map of Ledu, Qinghai, Chinafrom
Multimap
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Liuwan Tombs the largest tombs of primitive China
County-level divisions of Qinghai
Haidong
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