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Danzhou
Danzhou ( zh, t=儋州 , p=Dānzhōu) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan. The administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou is Nada Town. Danzhou was upgraded from a county-level city into a prefecture-level city in February 2015. History What is now Danzhou was settled by Cantonese peasants firstly named Danzhou ( zh, labels=no, t=儋州) in the 12th century and only renamed to Danxian in 1912 after hundreds of years, but later re-obtained its name Danzhou after the Communist takeover in the 1950s. During World War II, Danzhou was among the top most devastated counties in Hainan as the Japanese had massacred more than 30,000 Cantonese people in Danzhou, destroying over than 10,000 houses and 300 Danzhou villages. Subdivisions Danzhou is a prefecture-level city of the Hainan province. An uncommon administrative feature is that it has no county-level division. The city government directly administers over 17 towns ( zh, ...
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Nada, Danzhou
Nada Town () is a township under Danzhou city, Hainan province, China. Nada was established more than 400 years ago, and has been the administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou (formerly Dan County) since 1958. It has a population of 220,000 as of 2010. Location Nada is located in northwestern Hainan, from the provincial capital Haikou city, and from Sanya by expressway. It covers a total area of , with a built-up area of . History Nada was founded more than 400 years ago with the merger of the villages of Nanian () and Datong (). The name Nada was formed from the first syllables of the two villages. During the early 1950s, Nada was part of the seventh district of Dan County (Danxian). Nada County was established in May 1957, with Nada Town as its seat. In December 1958, Nada County was merged into Dan County, but the seat of Dan County was moved from Xinzhou to Nada Town. The town was called Nada Commune from 1958 to 1981, and its outskirts were split off as Qianjin Commun ...
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Hainan
Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally means "South of the Sea". The province has a land area of , of which Hainan Island is and the rest is over 200 islands scattered across three archipelagos: Zhongsha Islands, Zhongsha, Xisha Islands, Xisha and Nansha Islands, Nansha. It was part of Guangdong from 1950 to 1988, after which it was made a province of its own and was designated as a special economic zones of China, special economic zone by Deng Xiaoping, as part of the Chinese economic reform program. The Han Han Chinese, Chinese population, who compose a majority of the population at 82%, speak a wide variety of languages including Standard Chinese, Hainanese, Hainam Min, Yue Chinese, Cantonese, Hakka Chinese, etc. Indigenous peoples such as the Hlai people, Hlai, a Kra–Dai l ...
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Heqing, Hainan
Heqing (和庆镇) is a township under Danzhou city, Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ... province, China. It has a population of 20,720 as of 2010. References {{Danzhou Township-level divisions of Hainan Danzhou ...
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Zhonghe, Hainan
Zhonghe () is a town in Danzhou city, northwestern Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ... province, China. , it administers Zhonghe Residential Community and the following 11 villages: *Gaodi Village () *Shuijing Village () *Huanlong Village () *Heping Village () *Shanchun Village () *Lingchun Village () *Hengshan Village () *Wuli Village () *Qili Village () *Chang Village () *Huangjiang Village () See also * List of township-level divisions of Hainan References Township-level divisions of Hainan Danzhou {{Hainan-geo-stub ...
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Baimajing
Baimajing () is a town in Danzhou, Hainan, China. The town spans an area of , and has a hukou population of 63,618 as of 2018. History In 2002, almost all of the former township of Songming Township () was merged into Baimajing, except for of the village of Xindi (). Geography Baimajing is located in the west of Danzhou, approximately from the city center. Administrative divisions Baimajing administers 7 residential communities () and 15 administrative villages (). Residential communities Baimajing administers the following 7 residential communities: * Shengli Community () * Jiefang Community () * Haibin Community () * Dongfang Community () * Xinjie Community () * Xinma Community () * Nansi Community () Administrative villages Baimajing administers the following 15 administrative villages: * Fucun Village () * Tenggen Village () * Henang Village () * Makoujing Village () * Qiandi Village () * Zhugu Village () * Shanhua Village () * Zhaiji Village () * Nanzhuang ...
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Prefecture-level City
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's administrative structure. Details During the Republican era, many of China's prefectural cities were designated as Counties of Taiwan, counties as the country's second level division below a province. From 1949 to 1983, the official term was a province-administrated city (Chinese: 省辖市). Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative structure (alongside prefecture of China, prefectures, Leagues of China, leagues and autonomous prefectures). Administrative chiefs (mayors) of prefectural level cities generally have the same rank as a division chief () of a national ministry. Since the 1980s, most former prefectures have been renamed into prefecture-level cities. A prefectural level city is a "city" () and "p ...
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