Xiagezhuang Town () is a
town
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 ...
located inside of
Pinggu District
Pinggu District (), formerly Pinggu County (), lies in the far east of Beijing Municipality. It has an area of and a population of 396,701 (2000 Census). The district is subdivided into 2 subdistricts, 14 towns, and 2 townships. It borders the Be ...
,
Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It is situated near the
alluvial plain
An alluvial plain is a largely flat landform created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms. A floodplain is part of the process, being the sma ...
of
Ju River
The Ju River in North China Plain is a major river in the Beijing and Tianjin vicinities. It is a part of Hai River's watershed system. In 354 BCE (Warring States period of Zhou dynasty), State of Yan defeated State of Qi in a battle by this riv ...
. The town shares border with
Shandongzhuang Town in the north,
Nandulehe Town in the east, Xujiatai Village and Duanjialing Town in the south,
Donggaocun Town in the southwest, as well as
Pinggu Town and
Xinggu Subdistrict
Xinggu Subdistrict () is a subdistrict on the center of Pinggu District, Beijing, China. It shares border with Shandongzhuang Town in the northeast, Xiagezhuang Town in the southeast, Pinggu Town and Binhe Subdistrict in the south, and Wangxinz ...
in the northwest. It was home to 26,185 inhabitants as of 2020.
The name Xiagezhuang () refers to Xiagezhuang Village, where the town's government is located.
History
Administrative divisions
So far in 2021, Xiagezhuang Town has direct jurisdiction over 18 subdivisions, with 3 of them being
communities
A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...
and 15 of them being
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 ...
. They are, by the order of their
Administrative Division Codes:
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Beijing
This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divi ...
References
{{Subdivisions of Pinggu District, Beijing
Pinggu District
Towns in Beijing