Santai County ( zh, t=三台縣, s=三台县, w=San1-t῾ai2 Hsien4, p=Sāntái Xiàn; formerly known as Tungchwanfu) is a county under the administration of the
prefecture-level city of
Mianyang, in the northeast of
Sichuan Province of China.
It has an area of . Population density 553 per square kilometers. Its population is .
During the late 19th and first half of 20th century, Tungchwan was one of the mission centres of the
Friends' Foreign Mission Association.
Quaker
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
-affiliated hospital,
meeting house
A meeting house (meetinghouse, meeting-house) is a building where religious and sometimes public meetings take place.
Terminology
Nonconformist Protestant denominations distinguish between a
* church, which is a body of people who believe in Chr ...
, boys' school and girls' boarding school were built during this period (see
Quakerism in Sichuan).
Climate
References
External links
Official website of Santai County government
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County-level divisions of Sichuan
Mianyang