Qianling 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 ...

and the

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. The equivalent term shire town is used in the US st ...

Baojing County Baojing 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 west central Xiangxi, it is immediately adjacent to the southeast of ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

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 ...

. The town is located in the mid-eastern region of the county, it 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 Cou ...

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 south western Xiangxi, it is immediately adjacent to the borders of G ...

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