Boxing County 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 ...

Binzhou Binzhou (, ), formerly Putai, is a prefecture-level city in northern Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China. The city proper sits on the northern bank of the Yellow River, while its administrative area straddles both sides of its ...

in Shandong

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in the

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History

The area of Boxing County was mostly created within the last few millennia and long remained sparsely populated owing to the destructive floods of the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Ha ...

. In March 1956, Boxing absorbed most of the former , although Putai itself now forms the Pucheng area of

. Putai County had been established in 596.

Administrative divisions

As 2012, this County is divided to 3 subdistricts and 9 towns. ;Subdistricts * Chengdong Subdistrict () * Jinqiu Subdistrict () * Bochang Subdistrict () ;Towns

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