Shanhaiguan District (), formerly Shan-hai-kwan or Shan-hai-kuan, is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

of the city of

Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao (; ) is a port city on the coast of China in northern Hebei. It is administratively a prefecture-level city, about east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. Its population during the 2020 national ...

Hebei Province Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

, China, named after the pass of the Great Wall within the district,

Shanhai Pass Shanhai Pass or Shanhaiguan () is one of the major passes in the Great Wall of China, being the easternmost stronghold along the Ming Great Wall, and commands the narrowest choke point in the Liaoxi Corridor. It is located in Shanhaiguan Di ...

. It is located east of the city centre.

Administrative divisions

There are five

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, three

towns 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 one

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

Bohai Township Bohai may refer to: *Bohai Sea, or Bo Hai, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea *Balhae, known as Bohai in Chinese, a former mixed Mohe-Goguryeo empire which existed from 698 to 926 in Manchuria Locations or areas in China *Bohai Bay, one of thre ...

(), in the district.山海关区行政区划

Subdistricts

* Nanguan Subdistrict () * Dongjie Subdistrict () * Xijie Subdistrict () * Lunan Subdistrict () * Chuanchang Road Subdistrict ()

Towns

* Diyiguan () *

Shihe Shihe () is a district of the city of Xinyang, Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally mean ...

() *

Mengjiang Mengjiang, also known as Mengkiang or the Mongol Border Land, and governed as the Mengjiang United Autonomous Government, was an autonomous area in Inner Mongolia, formed in 1939 as a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, then from 1940 being ...

()

Climate

The climate is hot-summer humid continental with a

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscil ...

pattern (''Dwa'':).

References

External links

Shanhaiguan District official website
County-level divisions of Hebei Qinhuangdao {{Qinhuangdao-geo-stub