Qianling Town () is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

and the

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...

Baojing County Baojing County () is a county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. Located in west-central Xiangxi at the western edge of Hunan province, Baojing County is immediately adjacent to the southea ...

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. The town is located in the mid-eastern region of the county. Tt is bordered by

Yongshun County Yongshun County () is a county of Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. Located on the western part of Hunan and the northeastern Xiangxi, the county is bordered to the northeast by Sangzhi Co ...

to the east, Purong () and Wanmipo Towns () to the north, Fuxing Town () and

Huayuan County Huayuan County () is a county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. Located on the western margin of the province and the southwestern Xiangxi, it is immediately adjacent to the borders of Gui ...

to the west, and Yangchao () and Changtanhe Townships () to the south. It has an area of with a population of 909,000 (as of the end of 2015), and the

seat of local government The seat of government is (as defined by ''Brewer's Politics'') "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority". In most countries, the nation's capital is also seat of its government, thus that ...

is at Zhengxing Rd. ().the area and population of Qianling Town in 2015, according to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Baojing County on November 30, 2015, se
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{{Divisions of Baojing County Baojing County County seats in Hunan