Zhenlai County () is a county in northwestern
Jilin
Jilin (; alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea ( Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, Ryanggang and Chagang) and Russia (Prim ...
province, China, occupying the northernmost part of the province and bordering
Heilongjiang
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to the east and
Inner Mongolia
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to the west. It is under the administration of the
prefecture-level city
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During the Republican era, many of China ...
of
Baicheng
Baicheng () is a prefecture-level city in the northwestern part of Jilin province, People's Republic of China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Heilongjiang to the east and northeast. At the 2010 census, 2,033,058 people l ...
, with a population of 310,000 residing in an area of .
Administrative divisions
There are seven
towns
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
, two
townships
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, and two
ethnic township
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.
Climate
References
External links
County-level divisions of Jilin
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