Yuanzhou District, Guyuan

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Yuanzhou 原州区 ﻳُﻮًاﺟِﻮْ ٿِيُوِ‎
District
Yuanzhou in Guyuan
Guyuan in Ningxia
Coordinates (Yuanzhou government): 36°00′13″N 106°17′16″E / 36.0037°N 106.2878°E / 36.0037; 106.2878Coordinates: 36°00′13″N 106°17′16″E / 36.0037°N 106.2878°E / 36.0037; 106.2878
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Ningxia
Prefecture-level city	Guyuan
Area
• Total	2,739.01 km2 (1,057.54 sq mi)
Population
• Total	411,854
• Density	150/km2 (390/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Former names
"Cou-yuen-tcheou" and other "second-order" towns of Shaan-Gan, from Du Halde's 1736 Description of China, based on reports from Jesuit missionaries
Guyuan Prefecture
Chinese	固原州
showTranscriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gùyuán Zhōu Wade–Giles Ku-yüan Chou other Mandarin Xiao'erjing قُ‌يُوًا جِوْ‎
Guyuan County
Traditional Chinese	固原縣
Simplified Chinese	固原县
showTranscriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gùyuán Xiàn Wade–Giles Ku-yüan Hsien other Mandarin Xiao'erjing قُ‌يُوًا ثِيًا‎

Yuanzhou District, formerly Guyuan, is a district and the seat of the city of Guyuan in the south of Ningxia, China, bordering Gansu province to the northeast. It has a total area of 3,914 square kilometers (1,511 sq mi) and a population of 510,000 people.

History[]

Yuanzhou includes the old town of Guyuan or Guyuanzhou, which administered a prefecture in imperial times and a county before its urbanization.

Characteristics[]

Yuanzhou District administers eight towns, six townships, and one office. It is the economic, political, and transportation center of Guyuan. Although the district is located in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the proportion of Hui residents is actually smaller than the proportion of Han Chinese. 80 percent of the district's residents are farmers. The district government is located on Government Street, and the district's postal code is 756000.

Administrative divisions[]

Yuanzhou County has 1 subdistrict 5 towns and 4 townships.

1 subdistrict

• (南关街道, نًاقُوًا ڭِيَ‌دَوْ‎)

5 towns

• (三营镇, سًايٍ جٍ‎)
• (头营镇, تِوْيٍ جٍ‎)
• (彭堡镇, پٍْ‌بُ جٍ‎)
• Zhangyi (张易镇, جَانْ‌ءِ جٍ‎)
• (开城镇, کَيْ‌چٍْ جٍ‎)

4 townships

• (寨科乡, جَيْ‌کْ ثِيَانْ‎)
• Tanshan (炭山乡, تًاشًا ثِيَانْ‎)
• Hechuan (河川乡, حَ‌چُوًان ثِيَانْ‎)
• (中河乡, جْوحَ ثِيَانْ‎)

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