Hanbin District () is a district of the City of

Ankang Ankang () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shaanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hubei province to the east, Chongqing municipality to the south, and Sichuan province to the southwest. History The sett ...

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), N ...

Province, China and the seat of the city's government. It has a population of 886,393 and an area of 3,645.91 km². With forests covering 68.8% of its land, the district abounds in natural resources and remains a popular destination of tourism in Shaanxi. Between the

Qinling The Qinling () or Qin Mountains, formerly known as the Nanshan ("Southern Mountains"), are a major east–west mountain range in southern Shaanxi Province, China. The mountains mark the divide between the drainage basins of the Yangtze and Yellow ...

and the

Daba Mountains The Daba Mountains, also known by their Chinese name as the Dabashan, are a mountain range in Central China between the watersheds of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers. Part of the larger Qinling mountain range, it cuts through four provinces: Si ...

, Hanbin District is centrally located in

, bordering the counties Ningshan,

Hanyin Hanyin County () is a county in the south of Shaanxi province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ankang. Hanyin was established as early as the Qin dynasty and then known as Xicheng County. In 757 AD it became ...

, and

Ziyang Ziyang () prefecture-level city in eastern Sichuan province, China. It is bordered by the provincial capital of Chengdu to the northwest, Deyang to the north, Suining to the northeast, Chongqing municipality to the east, and Neijiang to the wes ...

on the west, Langao and Pingli on the south, Xunyang on the east, and Zhen'an on the north. Three expressways ( G65, G7011, and G4213), three railways ( Yangpingguan-Ankang, Xiangyang-Chongqing, Xi'an-Ankang) and an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...

make Hanbin a transportation hub in the

Shaannan Shaannan () or Southern Shaanxi refers to the portion of China's Shaanxi province south of the Qinling Mountains. Its name derives from the province's abbreviation "Shaan" () combined with the word "Nan" (, lit. "south"), its geographical locat ...

() region. Human settlement in what is called Hanbin District today dates back to the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...

period over 7,000 years ago. In 312 BC, a Xicheng County () was instituted by the

Qin state Qin () was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Traditionally dated to 897 BC, it took its origin in a reconquest of western lands previously lost to the Rong; its position at the western edge of Chinese civilization permitted ex ...

() here, marking the beginning of the area's countyhood. From the 4th century BC to the late 20th century, it was a county under various dynasties and regimes, until being established as a county-level city in 1988, and finally became a district of the prefectural City of Ankang in 2000.

Administrative divisions

As 2019, Hanbin District is divided to 4 subdistricts and 24 towns. ;Subdistricts ;Towns

References

Districts of Shaanxi Ankang {{Shaanxi-geo-stub