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Tongzhou District, Beijing
Tongzhou is a district of Beijing. It is located in southeast Beijing and considered the eastern gateway to the nation's capital. Downtown Tongzhou itself lies around east of central Beijing, at the northern end of the Grand Canal (China), Grand Canal (on the junction between the Tonghui Canal and the Northern Canal) and at the easternmost end of Chang'an Avenue. The entire district covers an area of , or 6% of Beijing's total area. It had a population of 673,952 at the 2000 Census, and has seen significant growth and development since then, growing to a population of 1,184,000 at the 2010 Census and 1,840,295 at the 2020 census. The district is subdivided into four subdistricts, ten towns, and one ethnic township. History Tongzhou was founded in 195 BC during the Western Han dynasty under the name of Lu (路) County, although there is evidence for human settlement in the Neolithic. At the start of the Eastern Han dynasty the character Lu by which it was known was altered by ...
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District (PRC)
The term ''district'', in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. In the modern context, district ( zh, s=区, labels=no), formally city-governed district, city-controlled district, or municipal district ( zh, s=市辖区, links=no, labels=no), are subdivisions of a municipality or a prefecture-level city. The rank of a district derives from the rank of its city. Districts of a municipality are prefecture-level; districts of a sub-provincial city are sub-prefecture-level; and districts of a prefecture-level city are county-level. The term was also formerly used to refer to obsolete county-controlled districts (also known as district public office). However, if the word ''district'' is encountered in the context of ancient Chinese history, then it is a translation for ''xian'', another type of administrative division in China. Before the 1980s, cities in China were administrative divisions contai ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square () is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen ("''Gate of Heavenly Peace''") located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden City. The square contains the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in the square on October 1, 1949; the anniversary of this event is still observed there. The size of Tiananmen Square is 765 x 282 meters (215,730 m2 or 53.31 acres). It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history. Outside China, the square is best known for the 1989 protests and massacre that ended with a military crackdown due to international media coverage, internet and global connectivity, its political implications, and other factors. Within China, there is a strict censorship o ...
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Hebei
Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It borders Shanxi to the west, Henan to the south, Shandong and Liaoning to the east, and Inner Mongolia to the north; in addition, Hebei entirely surrounds the direct-administered municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin on land. Its population is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu people, Manchu, 0.8% Hui people, Hui, and 0.3% Mongols in China, Mongol. Varieties of Chinese spoken include Jilu Mandarin, the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, and Jin Chinese. During the Spring and Autumn period, Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (771–226 BC), the region was ruled by the states of Yan (state), Yan and Zhao (state), Zhao. During the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), the region was called Zhongshu Sheng, Zhongshu. It was called North Zhili during the ...
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Guangyang District
Guangyang District () is a district of Langfang, Hebei, China. Administrative divisions Source: Subdistricts: * North Yinhe Road Subdistrict (), East Aimin Street Subdistrict (), Jiefang Street Subdistrict (), Xinkai Road Subdistrict (), Xinyuan Street Subdistrict () Towns: * Nanjianta (), Wanzhuang (), Jiuzhou The term Nine Provinces or Nine Regions (), is used in ancient Chinese histories to refer to territorial divisions or islands during the Xia and Shang dynasties and has now come to symbolically represent China. "Province" is the word used to ... () The only township is Beiwang Township () Others: *Langfang Development Area References External links County-level divisions of Hebei Langfang {{Langfang-geo-stub ...
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Xianghe County
Xianghe County () is a county of central Hebei province with 449,038 inhabitants in 2020, up from 343,372 inhabitants in 2010. It is under the administration of Langfang prefecture-level city. Xianghe has 7 towns and 2 townships. It is southeast of Beijing. Sanhe city, Dachang Hui Autonomous County and Xianghe County form the " Northern Three Counties of Langfang", an exclave of Hebei province surrounded by the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin. Administrative divisions Towns:http://www.xzqh.org/html/list/46.html廊坊市-行政区划网 * Shuyang (), Jiangxintun (), Qukou (), Antoutun (), Anping (), Liusong (), Wubaihu () Townships: * Qianwang Township (), Qiantun Township () Climate Grand Epoch City The "Grand Epoch City" located in the Xianghe Economic & Technical Development Zone of Hebei Province is a 1/6th scale model of the old walled city of Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China ...
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Dachang County
Dachang Hui Autonomous County (; Xiao'erjing: ) is a Hui autonomous county of Hebei province. It is under the administration of Langfang prefecture-level city, and was established in 1955. The Hui Muslim county of Dachang was subjected to slaughter by the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Together with Sanhe City, and Xianghe County, it forms the , an exclave of Hebei province surrounded by the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin, and itself borders Beijing to the west. A Dachang Hui Imam, Ma Zhenwu, wrote a Qur'an translation into Chinese including Chinese characters and Xiao'erjing. The county spans an area of , and has a population of about 171,366 people as of 2020. Administrative divisions The county administers one subdistrict and five towns. The county also administers the Hebei Dachang High-tech Industrial Development Zone, which serves as a township-level division. These township-level divisions then administer 16 residential communities, and 105 adminis ...
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Sanhe, Hebei
Sanhe () is a county-level city administered by the Langfang prefecture-level city in eastern Hebei province, People's Republic of China with around one million people. Sanhe city, Dachang Hui Autonomous County, and Xianghe County form the " Northern Three Counties of Langfang", an exclave of Hebei province surrounded by the Beijing and Tianjin municipalities. The name of the city literally means "Three Rivers". Administrative divisions Sanhe has 5 subdistricts and 10 towns. There are 395 villages within those subdistricts/towns. Subdistricts * Dingshengdongdajie Subdistrict (), Juyangxidajie Subdistrict (), Kejilu Subdistrict (), Yingbinbeilu Subdistrict (), Xinggongdongdajie Subdistrict () Towns * Juyang (), Liqizhuang (), Yangzhuang (), Huangzhuang (), Xinji (), Duanjialing (), Huangtuzhuang (), Gaolou (), Qixinzhuang (), Yanjiao () Development zones * Yanjiao Economic and Technological Development Zone (national level) () * Sanhe Agricultural High-tech Zone () ...
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Langfang
Langfang is a prefecture-level city of Hebei Province of China, Province, China, and was known as Tianjin Prefecture until 1973. It was renamed Langfang Prefecture after Tianjin became a Direct-controlled municipalities of China, municipality and finally upgraded into a prefecture-level city in 1988. Langfang is located approximately midway between Beijing and Tianjin. At the 2020 census, the population of Langfang was 5,464,087, of whom 1,147,591 lived in the built-up (''or metro'') area made of Guangyang and Anci districts; its total area is around . Langfang borders Baoding to the southwest, Cangzhou to the south (both prefecture-level cities of Hebei), Beijing to the north and Tianjin to the east. Sanhe City and Dachang Hui County are now conurbated with Beijing, so that they form part of the same built-up area. Langfang is the smallest prefecture-level city of Hebei Province by land area. Administrative divisions Langfang consists of 2 District (PRC)#City districts, count ...
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Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the 2020 Chinese census. Its metropolitan area, which is made up of 12 central districts (other than Baodi District, Baodi, Jizhou District, Tianjin, Jizhou, Jinghai District, Jinghai and Ninghe District, Ninghe), was home to 11,165,706 inhabitants and is also the world's 29th-largest agglomeration (between Chengdu and Rio de Janeiro) and 11th-List of cities proper by population, most populous city proper. Tianjin is governed as one of the four municipalities (alongside Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing) under the direct-administered municipalities of China, direct administration of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, State Council of Government of China, China. The city borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded ...
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Wuqing District
Wuqing District () is a district of Tianjin, bordering Hebei province to the north and west, Beijing Municipality to the northwest, Baodi District to the northeast, and Beichen District and Xiqing District to the southeast/south. Administrative divisions There are 6 subdistricts, 19 towns A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ..., and 5 townships in the district: Climate References Districts of Tianjin {{Tianjin-geo-stub ...
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Daxing District
Daxing District () is a district of Beijing, covering the southern suburbs of the city. It borders the Beijing districts of Tongzhou to the east/northeast, Fangshan to the west, Fengtai to the northwest, Chaoyang to the northeast, and the Hebei province to the south. History The Daxing Massacre of August 27-31, 1966 during the Cultural Revolution resulted in the deaths of at least 325 people, ranging in age from 38 days to 80 years. Daxing District was upgraded from a county to a district with the approval from the State Council on April 30, 2001. Covering an area of with a population of 671,444, Panggezhuang in Daxing is famous for its watermelons. Culture Located in the south of Beijing, the area is not as affluent as those that most visitors to Beijing are familiar with, such as Xidan and Guomao. Much of the industry in Daxing is related to distribution of food and consumer goods to service Beijing. There are many self-built communities casually created by the reside ...
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