Anguo (), nicknamed "Medicine Capital" (), 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 ...
-level city under the administration of and south 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 ...
, central
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, 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 "the Oldman of the Studio" (齋叟 Zhāisǒu), was a notable Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan Dynasty. He has been described as among the most prolific and highly regarded dramatists of the Yuan pe ...
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
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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