Lingqiu County is a
county
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under the administration of
Datong
Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 cens ...
City, in the northeast of
Shanxi Province
Shanxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is ...
, China, bordering
Hebei
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province to the east.
History
Under the
Han
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Ethnic groups
* Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group.
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, Lingqiu County was part of
Dai Prefecture
Dai Prefecture, also known by its Chinese name Daizhou, was a prefecture (''zhou'') of imperial China in what is now northern Shanxi. It existed intermittently from AD585 to 1912. Its eponymous seat Daizhou was located at Shangguan in Dai Count ...
. In 1626, the county suffered a
magnitude 7.0 earthquake with the loss of more than 5,200 lives.
Climate
References
www.xzqh.org
County-level divisions of Shanxi
Datong
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