Mian County or Mianxian () is a county of

Hanzhong Hanzhong (; abbreviation: Han) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Shaanxi province, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the south and Gansu to the west. The founder of the Han dynasty, Liu Bang, was once enfeoffed as ...

, in the southwest of

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, bordering

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibe ...

province to the northwest. Its area measures , and its total population as of 2020 was 429,000 people. During the Qin and

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it was known as Mianshui (沔水). In 1964 it was renamed to Mianxian with a

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character for Mian, to avoid the use of uncommon characters in place names. In 2020, the county government requested the name of the county to be changed to ''Mianzhou'' (沔州市), pending central government approval. Previously the government requested to use the name Dingjunshan City, but this was denied by the central government. The tomb of

Zhuge Liang Zhuge Liang ( zh, t=諸葛亮 / 诸葛亮) (181 – September 234), courtesy name Kongming, was a Chinese statesman and military strategist. He was chancellor and later regent of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period. He is ...

near Mount Dingjun is located in the county.

Transportation

Mian County is served by the Yangpingguan–Ankang Railway.

Administrative divisions

Mian County has 19 subordinate

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Climate

References

County-level divisions of Shaanxi Hanzhong {{Shaanxi-geo-stub