Lingxi () is a
town
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of
Yongshun County
Yongshun County () is a county of Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture.
Located on the western part of Hunan and the northeastern Xiangxi, the county is bordered to the northeast by Sangzhi Co ...
,
Hunan Province
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,
China
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, and also the
seat
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Yongshun County
Yongshun County () is a county of Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture.
Located on the western part of Hunan and the northeastern Xiangxi, the county is bordered to the northeast by Sangzhi Co ...
,
Hunan
Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...
, China.
History
Located in the central land of the county, the town was reformed by merging the former Lingxi Town and other four townships in which including Shaoha (), Daba (), Fuzhi () and Diaojing () on November 30, 2015. It has an area of with a population of 130,900 (as of November 2015).
The town is divided into 45
villages
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and 12
communities
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. Its seat is Chengbei Community ().
[the divisions of Yongshun County in 2015, according to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Yongshun County on November 30, 2015 - 《湖南省民政厅关于同意永顺县乡镇区划调整方案的批复》(湘民行发〔2015〕113号)]
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Etymology
Lingxi Town stands in the drainage basin
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of Lingxi River, and it is named after the river. The river is the upper reaches of Niulu River (), the largest tributary of Mengdong River (), and Mengdong River is the largest tributary of You River.[About Yongshun County - 永顺概况]
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See also
* List of township-level divisions of Hunan
This is a list of Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China#Township level, township-level divisions of the province of Hunan, China.
Changsha City Furong District
Tianxin District
Yuelu District
Kaifu District
Yuhua Dis ...
References
Divisions of Yongshun County
County seats in Hunan
Towns of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
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