Zhaoyang District () is the only
district
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and the seat of the city of
Zhaotong
Zhaotong () is a prefecture-level city located in the northeast corner of Yunnan province, China, bordering the provinces of Guizhou to the south and southeast and Sichuan to the northeast, north, and west.
History
Zhaotong has historic and ...
, in the northeast of
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...
Province, China. It borders the provinces of
Guizhou
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...
to the southeast and
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
to the west.
Administrative divisions
Zhaoyang County has 3 subdistricts, 10 towns, 3 townships and 4 ethnic townships.
;3 subdistricts
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Fenghuang
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Longquan
Longquan () is a county-level city and former county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Lishui in southwestern Zhejiang Province, China, located on the upper reaches of the Ou River and bordering Fujian province to the sout ...
()
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Miaoba ()
;10 towns
;3 townships
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Sujia ()
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Dazhaizi ()
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Tianba ()
;4 ethnic townships
References
External links
Zhaoyang District Official Website
County-level divisions of Zhaotong
Districts of China
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