Jiangyou () is a Chinese

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

located in

Mianyang Mianyang (; formerly known as Mienchow) is the second largest prefecture-level city of Sichuan province in Southwest China. Located in north-central Sichuan covering an area of consisting of Jiangyou, a county-level city, five counties, and thr ...

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 t ...

. The city proper is subdivided into four urban districts and has jurisdiction over 21 towns, and 19 rural townships. It is the hometown of

Li Bai Li Bai (, 701–762), also pronounced as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (), was a Chinese poet, acclaimed from his own time to the present as a brilliant and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights. He and his friend Du F ...

, a leading

Tang Dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an Zhou dynasty (690–705), interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dyn ...

poet. Jiangyou has an area of and a population of 870,000 in 2004.

Administrative divisions

Jiangyou has five subdistricts, 30

towns 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 or ...

and 10

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

.National Bureau of Statistics - Jiangyou City

Subdistricts

*Changgang () *Huaping () *Wudu () *Hanzeng () *Zhongba ()

Towns

*Zhangming () *Chonghua () *Sanhe () *Hanzeng () *Longfeng () *Yongsheng () *Shuanghe () *Hekou () *Majiao () *Qinglian () *Wudu () *Yanmen () *Xinan () *Zhanqi () *Jiuling () *Taiping () *Dakang () *Erlangmiao () *Xiaoxiba () *Houba () *Xiping () *Guanshan () *Dayan () *Wensheng () *Fangshui () *Xiangshui () *Bayi () *Yixin () *Dongxing ()

Townships

*Liuhe () *Tongxing () *Xinchun () *Xinxing () *Shiyuan () *Fengshun () *Jingyuan () *Yunji () *Zhongxing () *Dongan ()

Climate

References

External links

Official website of Jiangyou Government
County-level cities in Sichuan Mianyang {{Sichuan-geo-stub