Yuyang Area (), or Pinggu Town, is an
area
Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape
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and 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 ...
situates in the southwest of
Pinggu District, Beijing, China. It borders Wangxinzhuang 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 ...
to the north, Xiagezhuang Town to the east, Donggaocun Town to the south, Machangying and Daxingzhuang Towns to the west, and surrounds
Binhe Subdistrict on three sides. According to the 2020 census, its population was 62,694.
The town was named Pinggu () because of its location in a plain surrounded by mountains on the north, east and south. When it became an area in 2002, the namd Yuyang () was given in order to distinguish it from the larger district.
History
Administrative divisions
By the end of 2021, Yuyang Area consisted of 21 subdivisions, in which 8 were
communities
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and 13 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 ...
. They are named in the following list:
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
Areas of Beijing