Wangping Town () is a

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that stands within the eastern side of

Mentougou District Mentougou District () is a district in western Beijing. Spanning , with 266,591 inhabitants (2000 Census), it is subdivided into 4 subdistricts of the city proper of Beijing and 9 towns (1 of which is a suburb of the city proper of Beijing). It bor ...

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. It borders Miaofengshan Town in its northeast,

Dongxinfang Subdistrict Dongxinfang Subdistrict () is a subdistrict located within within Mentougou District, Beijing, China. It borders Longquan Town and Chengzi Subdistrict in the north, Dayu Subdistrict in the east, Longquan and Tantuosi Towns in the south, and Longq ...

and Longquan Town in its southeast, Yongding Town and

Datai Subdistrict Datai Subdistrict () is a subdistrict on central Mentougou District, Beijing, China. It borders Yanchi and Wanping Towns in the north, Wanping and Yongding Towns in the east, Fozizhuang and Da'anshan Towns in the south, and Zhaitang Town in the wes ...

in its south, and Yanchi Town in its northwest. Its population was 7,013 as of 2020.

History

Administrative Divisions

In the year 2021, Wangping Town was divided into 20 subdivisions, 4 of them were

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and the other 16 were

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

References

{{Subdivisions of Mentougou District, Beijing Mentougou District Towns in Beijing Areas of Beijing

History

Administrative Divisions

See also

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