Huangcun Area () is an
area
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and a town situated in the northwest corner of
Daxing District,
Beijing
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,
China
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. Since the creation of several subdistricts in 2001 and 2009, Huangcun has remained 3 regions that are disconnected from each other.
It was home to 176,890 inhabitants in the 2020 census.
During the
Yuan dynasty
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, this region was flooded by Guyu River and formed a large desert landscape. It was named Huangcun () at first, and the name got corrupted to Huangcun () in the
Qing dynasty
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.
History
Administrative divisions
By 2021, Huangcun Area consisted of 46 subdivisions, of those 11 were
residential communities, 33 were
villages
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and 2 were industrial areas:
Gallery
File:North gate of BUCEA Daxing Campus (20221013142115).jpg, Daxing Campus of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2022
File:Exit A of Daxing Xincheng Station (20210901160248).jpg, Daxing Xincheng Station, 2021
See also
*
List of township-level divisions of Beijing
References
{{Subdivisions of Daxing District, Beijing
Towns in Beijing
Daxing District
Areas of Beijing