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Dingzhou
County-level city in Hebei, People's Republic of China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Chongju in Korea, whose name shares the same Chinese characters as Dingzhou.
Dingzhou, or Tingchow in Postal Map Romanization, and formerly called Ding County or Dingxian, is a county-level city in the prefecture-level city of Baoding, Hebei Province. As of 2009, Dingzhou had a population of 1.2 million. Dingzhou has 3 subdistricts, 13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township.[2] Dingzhou is about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, 196 kilometers (122 mi) southwest of Beijing, and 68 kilometers (42 mi) northeast of Shijiazhuang.
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Dingzhou
定州市 | |
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![]() Dingzhou skyline seen from Shuohuang Railway | |
![]() Location in Baoding | |
Coordinates: 38°30′58″N 114°59′24″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Hebei |
Prefecture-level city | Baoding |
Area | |
• County-level city | 1,283.7 km2 (495.6 sq mi) |
• Urban | 53.00 km2 (20.46 sq mi) |
Elevation | 58 m (189 ft) |
Population (2017) | |
• County-level city | 1,249,000 |
• Density | 970/km2 (2,500/sq mi) |
• Urban | 414,000 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 073000 |
Area code | 0312 |
License Plate Prefix | 冀F |
Website | www |
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Dingzhou | |||||||||
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Chinese | 定州 | ||||||||
Postal | Tingchow | ||||||||
Literal meaning | [Seat of] Ding ("Orderly") Prefecture | ||||||||
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Quick Facts Former names, Lunu ...
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Traditional Chinese | 廬奴 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 庐奴 | ||||||||
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Boling | |||||||||
Chinese | 博陵 | ||||||||
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Dingxian | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 定縣 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 定县 | ||||||||
Postal | Tingsien | ||||||||
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