Shanyin County () is a county in the northwest of
Shanxi
Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...
province, China. It is under the administration of
Shuozhou
Shuozhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest. It is situated along the upper reaches of the Fen River. The prefecture as a whole has an area of about and, in 2010, a popu ...
City.
The
Guangwu section of the Great Wall runs along the county. Near the section of the Great Wall are the historic villages of
New Guangwu
Xinguangwu () is a village in Zhangjiazhuang Township (), Shanyin County, Shanxi, China. The population of the village is around 2,000 people.
History
The village was built as a fortification during the Ming Dynasty in 1374 on the site of a se ...
and
Old Guangwu.
Climate
References
External links
www.xzqh.org
County-level divisions of Shanxi
Shuozhou
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