Anguo

Qizhou
Qizhou
Chinese	祁州
Postal	Chichow
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Qízhōu
Wade–Giles	Ch'i2-chou1

Anguo
Anguo
Simplified Chinese	安国
Traditional Chinese	安國
Postal	Ankwo
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Ānguó
Wade–Giles	An1-kuo2

Anguo

安国市
Ankwo
Anguo 安国市 Ankwo
County-level city
	Temple for the God of Medicine
	Location in Baoding
	Anguo Location in Hebei
	Coordinates: 38°25′05″N 115°19′37″E / 38.418°N 115.327°ECoordinates: 38°25′05″N 115°19′37″E / 38.418°N 115.327°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hebei
Prefecture-level city	Baoding
Area
• County-level city	485.1 km2 (187.3 sq mi)
• Urban	81.00 km2 (31.27 sq mi)
Elevation	33 m (107 ft)
Population (2017)
• County-level city	415,000
• Density	860/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
• Urban	109,800
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	071200
Area code(s)	0312
Website	anguo.gov.cn

Anguo (simplified Chinese: 安国; traditional Chinese: 安國; pinyin: Ānguó), nicknamed "Medicine Capital" (药都), is a county-level city under the administration of and 52 kilometres (32 mi) south of Baoding, central Hebei province, China.^[2]

It has a provincially protected Temple of the God of Medicine (藥王廟) established around 100.

In premodern China, Anguo was Qizhou (Chinese: 祁州; pinyin: Qízhōu). In 1991, Anguo was changed from county into a city. The city governs 20 town-level entities in 486 km² (188 sq mi), of which the centrally placed Yaocheng (药城; Yàochéng) is the municipal seat. The Chinese playwright Guan Hanqing was born here.

Administrative divisions[]

Subdistricts:^[2]

(祁州药市街道)

Towns:

Qizhou (祁州镇), (伍仁桥镇), (石佛镇), Zhengzhang (郑章镇), (西佛落镇), (大五女镇)

Townships:

(明官店乡), (南娄底乡), (西安国城乡), (北段村乡)

External links[]

^ ^a ^b Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 46. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b 安国市-行政区划网. XZQH.

药都安国 (Anguo, the Medicine Capital). Municipal government website, in Simplified Chinese

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[CUCSY_2017-1] Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 46. Retrieved 11 January 2020.

[Admin_Div-2] 安国市-行政区划网. XZQH.

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