Anguo (), nicknamed "Medicine Capital" (), is a
county
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
-level city under the administration of and south of
Baoding
Baoding is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2020 census, Baoding City had 11,544,036 inhabitants, of which 2,549,787 lived in the metropolitan area made of 4 out of 5 urban distri ...
, central
Hebei
Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...
province, China.
It has a provincially protected Temple of the God of Medicine () established around 100.
In premodern China, Anguo was Qizhou (). In 1991, Anguo was changed from county into a city. The city governs 20 town-level entities in , of which the centrally placed Yaocheng () is the municipal seat. The Chinese playwright
Guan Hanqing
Guan Hanqing (, 1241–1320); sobriquet Yǐzhāi (已齋), Yīzhāi (一齋), Yǐzhāisǒu (已齋叟); was a Chinese dramatist, playwright, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty. He has been described as among the most prolific and highly regarde ...
was born here.
Administrative divisions
Subdistricts:
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Qizhouyaoshi Subdistrict ()
Towns:
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Qizhou (),
Wurenqiao (),
Shifo (),
Zhengzhang (),
Xifoluo (),
Dawunü ()
Townships:
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Mingguandian Township (),
Nanloudi Township (),
Xi'anguocheng Township (),
Beiduancun Township ()
Climate
Notable people
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Mo Menchuan, Chinese politician and academician
External links
药都安国 (Anguo, the Medicine Capital).Municipal government website, in Simplified Chinese
Geography of Baoding
County-level cities in Hebei
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