Nanshao 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 ...
located in the eastern side 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 ...
,
Beijing
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China
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. It shares border with Shisanling Town to its north, Cuicun Town to its east, Baishan and
Shahe Towns to its south,
Machikou Town to its southwest,
Chengnan and
Chengbei Subdistricts to its west. In 2020, the town had a total population of 65,403.
History
Administrative divisions
By the end of 2021, Nanshao Town consisted of 26 subdivisions, including 10
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 16
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:昌崔路 - Changcui Road - 2015.08 - panoramio.jpg, Changcui Road on the north of the town, 2015
File:昌平新城滨河森林公园 - Changping New Town Riverside Forest Park - 2015.08 - panoramio.jpg, Changping New Town Riverside Forest Park, 2015
File:CEPRI in Changping Beijing2021.jpg, The Changping Base of China Electric Power Research Institute, 2021
File:Beijing-Miyun Diversion Canal in Changping District.jpg, Beijing-Miyun Diversion Canal, 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
{{Subdivisions of Changping District, Beijing
Changping District
Towns in Beijing