Wushan County () is a

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in the east of

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. It is under the administration of the

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of Tianshui. Its postal code is 741300, and in 1999 its population was 418,648 people. The population in 2017 was 500,000 people.

History

Humans have inhabited the area since at least 38,000 years ago. The county was knows as Xinxing () during the

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(188 AD). During the

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it was named Ningyuan (). Since the

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it holds the current name.

Administrative divisions

Wushan County is divided to 13 towns and 2 townships. ;Towns ;Townships * Zuitou Township () * Yan'an Township ()

Climate

Economy

Agricultural produce from Wushan are wheat, artichoke, flax, rapeseed, tomato, carrot,

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, Codonopsis and

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. Iron, copper and molybdenum mines are also present in the county.

Culture

;Cuisine Wushan food is a mix of Lanzhou, Sichuan and Tibetan cuisine. Specialities from the region are: * Donut shaped Youtiao * Pork and beef hotpot * Barbecue trout * Liangpi * Dandan noodles * Jiaotuan: sticky corn-flour jelly * Jiangshui (): a kind of sour vegetable soup * Tianpei: Sweet highland barley dessert * Fried artichoke balls (): Deep-fried flour-artichoke balls * Sanfan (): glutinous flour soup with beans * Guanguan tea () – a kind of tea brewed with rock sugar, jujube, Chinese wolfberry and longan in a clay pot on a fire.

History

Administrative divisions

Climate

Economy

Culture

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