Lingbao (;
postal: Lingpao) 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 ...
and the westernmost
county-level division
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of
Henan
Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Lu ...
province, China, bordering the provinces of
Shanxi
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to the north and
Shaanxi
Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...
to the west, under the administration of the
prefecture-level city
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of
Sanmenxia
Sanmenxia ( zh, s= , t= , p=Sānménxiá; Postal romanization, postal: Sanmenhsia) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Henan, Henan Province, China. The westernmost prefecture-level city in Henan, Sanmenxia borders Luoyang to the east, Nanya ...
. In ancient times, the
Hongnong Commandery was located approximately 20 km south of there. Since 2005, there is a HVDC back-to-back station built by ABB with a transmission rate of 360 MW.
Lingbao city has a population of 720,000 residents in 2006.
The legend of
Kuafu is said to be set in Lingbao, which has therefore previously been called Taolin (peach orchard).
History
Lingbao City can be traced back to 114 BC as an administrative division, when it was known as Hongnong (弘农县).
In 1993 Linbao City was established from Lingbao
County
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
.
Administrative divisions
, this city is divided to 10 towns and 5 townships.
;Towns
;Townships
Climate
Transportation
*
China National Highway 209
See also
*
Prince of Hongnong
References
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External links
Lingbao official website
County-level divisions of Henan
Sanmenxia
Cities in Henan
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