Yi County or Yixian () is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
in
Hebei
Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...
province of China, administratively under the jurisdiction of the
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
During the Republican era, many of Chi ...
of
Baoding
Baoding (), formerly known as Baozhou and Qingyuan, is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2010 census, Baoding City had 11,194,382 inhabitants out of which 2,176,857 lived in the b ...
.
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History
This is the site where the assassin Jing Ke
Jing Ke (died 227 BC) was a ''youxia'' during the late Warring States period of Ancient China. As a retainer of Crown Prince Dan of the Yan state, he was infamous for his failed assassination attempt on King Zheng of the Qin state, who later beca ...
set off on his final journey to assassinate the King of Qin.[https://ctext.org/shiji/ci-ke-lie-zhuan?searchu=%E8%87%B3%E6%98%93%E6%B0%B4&searchmode=showall#result]
Administrative divisions
Gaocun Township
Gaocun Town () is a town and the county seat of Mayang Miao Autonomous County in Hunan, China. The town is located in the mid-northern region of the county, it was reformed to merge ''Luxikou Township'' (), Liping Township (), ''Gudapo Township ...
(), Gaomo Township (), Dalonghua Township
Dalonghua Township () is a township under the administration of Yi County, Hebei
Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhua ...
(), Angezhuang Township (), Xishanbei Township (), Weidu Township
Weidu () is a district of the city of Xuchang
Xuchang (; postal: Hsuchang) is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province in Central China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the northwest, Kaifeng to the northeast, Zhouko ...
(), Dule Township Dule may refer to:
* Dule tree
* Dule people, an ethic group of Panama and Colombia
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(), Qiyu Township (), Fugang Township (), Pocang Township (), Niugang Township (), Qiaojiahe Township (), Ganhejing Township (), Caijiayu Township (), Nanchengsi Township (), Lingyunce Hui and Manchu Ethnic Township ()
Climate
See also
* Western Qing Tombs
The Western Qing tombs (; ) are located some southwest of Beijing in Yi County, Hebei Province. They constitute a necropolis that incorporates four royal mausoleums where seventy-eight royal members are buried. These include four emperors of th ...
* Xiadu
The Xiadu or Lower Capital of Yan () was one of the capitals of Yan during the Warring States period of ancient China. Xiadu may have been the largest city in the world from 400 to 300 BC, with an estimated peak population over 300,000.
The rem ...
References
Geography of Baoding
County-level divisions of Hebei
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