Sanhe () is a town in south-central
Anhui
Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...
province, People's Republic of China. Located south of the provincial capital of
Hefei and only from the shores of
Chao Lake, it is under the administration of
Feixi County
Feixi County () is a county of Anhui Province, East China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hefei, the capital of Anhui
Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic ...
. In 2009, it had a population of 73,000 and an area of . , it administered 14
residential communities () and 12
villages
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
.
Name
The name of the town literally means 'Three Rivers', referring to the
Fengle (),
Hangbu (), and
Xiaonan Rivers ().
History
The area around the town was the scene of the 1858
Battle of Sanhe during the
Taiping Revolt against the
Qing.
Divisions
Within its borders lies the
Sanhe Old Town (), which occupies more than 41% of the town's population and yet only of the area, and for this reason is one of the nationally designated historical and cultural towns ().
Transport
The Anhui Provincial Road 103, running from
Tongling
Tongling (; former names: Tunglinghsien, Tungkwanshan) is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province. A river port along the Yangtze River, Tongling borders Wuhu to the east, Chizhou to the southwest and Anqing to the west.
As of the 20 ...
to Hefei, passes through the area.
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Anhui
This is a township-level divisions of the province of Anhui, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divisions of th ...
References
Towns in Anhui
Feixi County
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