Boxing County is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
of
Binzhou
Binzhou (, ), formerly Putai, is a prefecture-level city in northern Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China. The city proper sits on the northern bank of the Yellow River, while its administrative area straddles both sides of its ...
in
Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
Province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
in the
People's Republic of China
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.
History
The area of Boxing County was mostly created within the last few millennia and long remained sparsely populated owing to the destructive
floods
A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrolog ...
of the
Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Standard Beijing Mandarin, Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system in the world at th ...
.
In March 1956, Boxing absorbed most of the former , although Putai itself now forms the
Pucheng area of
Binzhou
Binzhou (, ), formerly Putai, is a prefecture-level city in northern Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China. The city proper sits on the northern bank of the Yellow River, while its administrative area straddles both sides of its ...
. Putai County had been established in 596.
Administrative divisions
As 2012, this County is divided to 3 subdistricts and 9 towns.
;Subdistricts
* Chengdong Subdistrict ()
* Jinqiu Subdistrict ()
* Bochang Subdistrict ()
;Towns
Climate
Transportation
*
Zibo–Dongying Railway
The Zibo–Dongying railway or Zidong railway (), also called the Zhangdian–Dongying railway or Zhangdong railway, is a railroad in Shandong Province of northern China, between Zibo and Dongying. The railway has a total length of . and was c ...
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Counties of Shandong
Boxing County
Binzhou
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