Ye County or Yexian () is a

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under the administration of the

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Pingdingshan Pingdingshan (), also known as Eagle City ( zh, s=鹰城, p=Yīngchéng, t=鷹城), is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. It had 4,904,701 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 1,756,333 lived in the built-up (or metro) are ...

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province, China, with a population of . The ancient town of Kunyang was located in Ye County. It was the site of the critical

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, in which the

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forces decisively defeated the army of

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. The ancient city of Ye was the origin of the common Chinese surname Ye (叶/葉).

Administrative divisions

As 2012, this county is divided to 5 towns, 12 townships and 1 ethic townships. ;Towns ;Townships ;Ethnic townships * Mazhuang Hui Township ()

Climate

Religious Persecution

Kunyang is home to China's No. 1 Prison of Women of Yunan where the Chinese Christians, Ju Dianghong and Liang Qin are serving sentences of 13 years and 10 years respectively for their

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activities.

References

County-level divisions of Henan Pingdingshan {{Henan-geo-stub