Diaobingshan () is a city in the northeast of
Liaoning
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province in
Northeast China
Northeast China () is a geographical region of China, consisting officially of three provinces Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. The heartland of the region is the Northeast China Plain, the largest plain in China with an area of over . The regi ...
. It is under the administration of
Tieling City, which lies to the southeast. In 2020 the population was 206,058.
The city was established as Tiefa City (), a compound name of nearby Tieling City and
Faku County, in 1982 as a coal production base. In 2002 it was renamed to Diaobingshan, which is the name of a mountain west of the city. Diaobingshan, which can be translated as 'troops dispatching mountain' is named for troop movements during the
Jin dynasty being dispatched from here.
Administrative divisions
There are seven
towns under the city's administration.
铁岭市-行政区划网
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Towns:
* Bingshan ()
* Daming ()
* Gushanzi ()
* Tiefa ()
* Xiaoming ()
* Xiaonan ()
* Xiaoqing ()
References
External links
County-level divisions of Liaoning
Tieling
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