Kuancheng District () is one of seven

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of the

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Changchun Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 ...

, the capital of Jilin Province,

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. It is part of Changchun's main urban area, located north of downtown. It borders Dehui to the northeast,

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to the east,

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to the southeast, Nanguan and Chaoyang Districts to the south, Luyuan District to the southwest, and

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to the northwest.

History

In May 1898, as Russians were building a railway from

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to Lüshun (the southern branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway), Kuancheng became the location of Changchun's first railway station.Changchun II- Le chemin de fer de Changchun
After Russia's loss of the southernmost section of this branch as a result of the

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, the Kuancheng station (Kuanchengtze, in contemporary spelling) became the last Russian station on this branch. The next station to the south - the new "Japanese"

station, just a short distance to the south - became the first station of the South Manchuria Railway, which now owned all the tracks running farther south, to Lüshun. A special Russo-Japanese agreement of 1907 provided that Russian gauge tracks would continue from the "Russian" Kuancheng Station to the "Japanese" Changchun Station, and vice versa, tracks on the "gauge adapted by the South Manchuria Railway" (which happened to be the

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) would continue from the Changchun Station to the Kuancheng Station.

Administrative divisions

There are 13 subdistricts, two

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, and one

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.长春市-行政区划网 www.xzqh.org
/ref> Subdistricts: * Xinfa Subdistrict (), Shengli Subdistrict (), Nanguang Subdistrict (), Dongguang Subdistrict (), Zhanqian Subdistrict (), Xiguang Subdistrict (), Liuying Subdistrict (), Qunying Subdistrict (), Kaixuan Subdistrict (), Xingye Subdistrict (), Tuanshan Subdistrict (), Dong'an Subdistrict (), Changtong Subdistrict () Towns: * Xinglongshan (), Lanjia () The only township is Fenjin Township ()

References

External links

County-level divisions of Jilin Changchun {{Jilin-geo-stub