Kaiyuan () is a

county-level city A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...

in the northeast of

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, People's Republic of China, bordering

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for a small section to the north. It is under the administration of Tieling City, the centre of which lies to the southwest.

Administrative divisions

There are 3 subdistricts, 9 towns, and 9 townships under the city's administration. Subdistricts: * Xincheng Subdistrict (), Laocheng Subdistrict (), Xingkai Subdistrict () Towns: *Babao (), Qingyunbao (), Kaoshan (), Yemin (), Jingouzi (), Zhonggu (), Bakeshu (), Lianhua (), Weiyuanbao () Townships: * Chengdong Township (), Sanjiazi Township (), Songshanbao Township (), Majiazhai Township (), Lijiatai Township (), Shangbadi Manchu Ethnic Township (), Xiabadi Manchu Ethnic Township (), Huangqizhai Manchu Ethnic Township (), Linfeng Manchu Ethnic Township ()

Geography and climate

Kaiyuan is situated in northeastern Liaoning in the southeastern part of Tieling City on the eastern bank of the middle reaches of the Liao River. It borders Dongfeng County and Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County to the east, Tieling County to the south, Faku and Changtu counties to the west, and Lishu County (

) to the north. Its administrative area reaches a maximal north–south extent of and east–west width of . In the east, the land begins to transition to the foothills of the Changbai Mountains, while the west is marked by the Songliao Plain. Kaiyuan has a

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-influenced

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

(

Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...

''Dwa''), characterised by hot, humid summers and long, cold and windy, but dry winters. The four seasons here are distinctive. A majority of the annual rainfall of occurs in July and August alone. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July, and the annual mean is . Kaiyun was directly hit by tornadoes in 2019 and 2023.

Notable people

* Sheng Shicai (1897–1970), a

warlord Warlords are individuals who exercise military, Economy, economic, and Politics, political control over a region, often one State collapse, without a strong central or national government, typically through informal control over Militia, local ...

who ruled

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

from 1933 to 1944. * Xiao Jie (1957), Chinese politician * Zhao Benshan (1957), Chinese actor * Xiaoshenyang (1981), Chinese actor

References

External links

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