Laiyuan County () is a

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in western

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...

province, China, bordering

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province to the west. It is under the jurisdiction of the

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Baoding Baoding (), formerly known as Baozhou and Qingyuan, is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2010 census, Baoding City had 11,194,382 inhabitants out of which 2,176,857 lived in the b ...

, and, , it had a population of 270,000 residing in an area of .

Administrative divisions

There are 7 towns and 10 townships under the county's administration.

Climate

Transportation

* China National Highway 108 *

China National Highway 112 China National Highway 112 is a 1228 km ring road which runs outside Beijing (municipality). Route and distance See also * China National Highways The China National Highways (CNH/Guodao) () is a network of trunk roads across m ...

China National Highway 207 China National Highway 207 (G207) runs from Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia to Hai'an, Guangdong. It is in length and runs south from Xilinhot through Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Guangxi, and ends in Guangdong. Route and distan ...

* G18 Rongcheng–Wuhai Expressway

External links

Geography of Baoding County-level divisions of Hebei {{Baoding-geo-stub