Yangyuan County is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
in
Zhangjiakou Prefecture,
Hebei Province
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 0 ...
, China.
Geography
Yangyuan is bounded by
Huai'an County
Huai'an County () is a county in the northwest of Hebei, China. It is under the administration of Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou (; ; ) also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in ...
to the north,
Xuanhua County
Xuanhua is an urban district of Zhangjiakou in northwestern Hebei Province, China.
Xuanhua is a very old city with a rich military and agricultural history. Xuanhua was historically the "Gateway to Beijing", which lies to its southeast. As a ...
to the east,
Yu County to the south, and by
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 ce ...
municipality in
Shanxi Province
Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level ...
to the north and west.
Climate
History
Under the
Han, Yangyuan County was part of
Dai Commandery
Dai Commandery was a commandery (''jùn'') of the state of Zhao established BC and of northern imperial Chinese dynasties until the time of the Emperor Wen of the Sui dynasty (r. AD581–604). It occupied lands in what is now Hebei, Shanxi, a ...
.
Administration
Yangyuan runs 5
towns (''zhen'', 镇) and 9
townships (''xiang'', 乡). The county executive, legislature and
judiciary
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law ...
are in
Xicheng Town, together with the
CPC and
PSB branches.
Towns
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Xicheng ()
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Dongcheng ()
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Huashaoying ()
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Chuaihuatuan ()
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Dongjingji ()
Townships
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Yaojiazhuang ()
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Dongfangchengbu ()
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Jing'ergou ()
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Sanmafang ()
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Gaoqiang ()
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Datianwa ()
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Xinbu ()
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Majuanbu ()
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Futujiang ()
References
County-level divisions of Hebei
Zhangjiakou
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