Yanshan ( zh, c=铅山, p=Yánshān, also pronounced ''Qiānshān'') is a

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Shangrao Shangrao ( zh, s= , t= , p=Shàngráo) is a medium-sized prefecture-level city located in the northeast of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. The city borders the province of Anhui to the north, the province of Zhejiang to the east, and ...

Municipality, in north-eastern

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province.

Name

The first character in this county's name ( zh, labels=no, c=铅) is normally pronounced ''qiān'', but in the local dialect it is pronounced as ''yán''. The local pronunciation is what is generally used.

Situation

It borders

Hengfeng County Hengfeng County () is a small county under the administration of Shangrao city, Jiangxi province, China. It is located in the centre of Shangrao city, about from Shangrao Xinzhou District which is the locality of the municipality. History Hen ...

to the north, Shangrao County to the east,

Wannian County Wannian () is a County (People's Republic of China), county in the northeast of Jiangxi province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Shangrao. Its total area is . Its 2003 population was . Wannian County comprise ...

and

Guixi City Guixi () is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Yingtan, Jiangxi Province, China, bordering Fujian Province to the southeast. The city covers two-thirds of the land area in the municipal region. Like Yuehu ...

(in

Yingtan Yingtan ( zh, s=鹰潭 , t=鷹潭 , p=Yīngtán, l=Eagle Pond) is a prefecture-level city in the east of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Fujian to the southeast. Its location near the trisection of Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhe ...

) to the west and

Wuyishan City Wuyishan City ( zh, c=武夷山市, p=Wǔyíshān Shì) is a county-level city in the municipal region of Nanping, in the northwest of Fujian, People's Republic of China, which borders Jiangxi to the northwest. It corresponds to the former Chong'a ...

and Guangze County (both in

Nanping Nanping; historically known as Yanping ( zh, s=延平, poj=Iân-pêng is a third-tier prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian province of China, Province, China, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningde to the east, Sanming to the sou ...

, FJ) to the south.''Jiangxi-sheng Ditu'',

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Waterways

Hekou town sits on the

Xinjiang River Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC: previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads ...

(), a tributary to Boyang Lake in the lower

Yangzi River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...

watershed.

Administration

The county seat, by Chinese convention often also called Yanshan, is at Hekou town ().

7 Towns (镇, ''zhen'')

8 Townships (乡, ''xiang'')

2 Ethnic Townships (族乡, ''zu xiang'')

* She Taiyuan () *

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Climate

Notes and references

{{authority control Shangrao County-level divisions of Jiangxi