Yuanzhou District, formerly Guyuan, is a
district
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and the seat of the city of
Guyuan
(), formerly known as Xihaigu (, Xiao'erjing: قُيُوًا شِ), is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It occupies the southernmost section of the region, bordering Gansu provinc ...
in the south of
Ningxia
Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ...
, China, bordering
Gansu province to the northeast. It has a total area of and a population of 510,000 people.
History
Yuanzhou includes the old town of Guyuan or Guyuanzhou, which administered a
prefecture in imperial times and a
county
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before its urbanization.
Characteristics
Yuanzhou District administers eight towns, six townships, and one office. It is the economic, political, and transportation center of Guyuan. Although the district is located in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the proportion of
Hui
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residents is actually smaller than the proportion of
Han Chinese
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. 80 percent of the district's residents are farmers. The district government is located on Government Street, and the district's postal code is 756000.
Administrative divisions
Yuanzhou County has 1 subdistrict 5 towns and 4 townships.
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Nanguan (, )
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Sanying (, )
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Touying (, )
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Pengbu (, )
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Zhangyi (, )
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Kaicheng (, )
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Zhaike (, )
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Tanshan (, )
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Hechuan
Hechuan () is a district
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Zhonghe (, )
County-level divisions of Ningxia
Guyuan
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