Machikou Area () is an area and 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 ...
inside of
Changping District
Changping District (), formerly Changping County (), is a district situated in the suburbs of north and northwest Beijing.
History
Changping County and Jundu County which administered the area were established in the Han Dynasty. Changping was i ...
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Beijing
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China
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. Machikou shares border with
Chengnan and
Chengbei Subdistricts to its north, Nanshao and Shahe Towns to its east,
Shangzhuang and Yangfang Towns to its south, and
Nankou Town to its west and north. The population for this area was 87,506 as of 2020.
This area's name Machikou () is referring to the region's past location as a stopping for trading caravans.
History
Administrative divisions
As of the year 2021, Machikou Area had 22 subdivisions, in which 1 was a
community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...
, and 21 were
villages
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
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Gallery
File:Changping railway station hall 0730.jpg, Changping railway station, 2022
File:Changping Experimental Base Institute of Crop Sciences Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.jpg, Changping Experimental Base Institute of Crop Sciences, 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
Changping District
Towns in Beijing
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