Zhuozhou (), is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

with 628,000 inhabitants in

Hebei 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 ...

province, bordering

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to the north. It is administered by

Baoding Baoding (), formerly known as Baozhou and Qingyuan, is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2010 census, Baoding City had 11,194,382 inhabitants out of which 2,176,857 lived in the b ...

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of Chi ...

. Zhuozhou has 3 subdistricts, 6 towns, 5 townships, and 1 development zone.

Administrative divisions

Subdistricts: * Shuangta Subdistrict (), Taoyuan Subdistrict (), Qingliangsi Subdistrict () Towns: * Songlindian (), Matou (), Dongchengfang (), Gaoguanzhuang (), Dongxianpo (), Baichigan () Townships: * Yihezhuang Township (), Lintun Township (), Sunzhuang Township (), Douzhuang Township (), Diaowo Township ()

Climate

Transportation

Railroads

* Beijing–Guangzhou Railway: Zhuozhou Railway Station * Beijing–Shijiazhuang High-Speed Railway: Zhuozhou East Railway Station

Highways

G4 Beijing–Hong Kong and Macau Expressway The Beijing–Hong Kong and Macau Expressway (), designated as G4 and commonly referred to as the Jinggang'ao Expressway () is a -long expressway that connects the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shenzhen, in Guangdong province, at the border wit ...

China National Highway 107 China's National Highway 107 runs from Beijing to Hong Kong SAR via Wuhan. It runs to approximately 2,698 km, and, on a map, runs broadly on a straight line from Beijing to Shenzhen. In 2013, under a new 2013-2030 plan by the National Devel ...

* G95 Capital Region Ring Expressway

Places of interest

* Zhidu Temple Pagoda: A pagoda built in the

Liao Dynasty The Liao dynasty (; Khitan: ''Mos Jælud''; ), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: ''Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur''), officially the Great Liao (), was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yelü ...

References

External links

Zhuozhou City Government Website

Geography of Baoding County-level cities in Hebei {{Baoding-geo-stub