Lintong District (), formerly Lintong County, is one of 11 urban districts of the

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, the capital of

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. The district was approved to establish from the former ''Lintong County'' () by the

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on June 25, 1997. The

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and the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was discovered in March 1974 near this district. The district borders the

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to the northwest and

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to the east,

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to the northeast,

Baqiao District Baqiao District () is one of 11 districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. The district borders Gaoling District to the north, Lintong District to the northeast, Chang'an District to the sou ...

to the southeast, Lianhu and Xincheng Districts to the south, and Chang'an District to the southwest. Artifacts from the tomb of

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, China's first emperor, can be viewed at the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum () in Lintong District. The

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, the

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(), formerly known as Shaanxi Astronomical Observatory (), was established in 1966 in Lintong responsible for the time standard in

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. It was renamed to its present name in 2001. The name of the district comes from two rivers. Lin river is on the east side and Tong river is on the west side of the district. Lintong is headquarters of the 47th Group Army of the People's Liberation Army, one of the two group armies that comprise the Lanzhou Military Region responsible for defending China's northwest borders.

Administrative divisions

As 2020, Lintong District is divided to 23 subdistricts. ;Subdistricts

References

External links

Official website of Lintong District Government
Districts of Xi'an {{Shaanxi-geo-stub