Shanhaiguan District (), formerly Shan-hai-kwan or Shan-hai-kuan, is a

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of the city of

Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao (; ) is a port city on the coast of China in northern Hebei. It is administratively a prefecture-level city, about east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. Its population during the 2020 national ...

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, China, named after the pass of the Great Wall within the district, Shanhai Pass. It is located east of the city centre.

Administrative divisions

There are five

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, three towns, and one

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, Bohai Township (), in the district.山海关区行政区划

Subdistricts

* Nanguan Subdistrict () * Dongjie Subdistrict () * Xijie Subdistrict () * Lunan Subdistrict () * Chuanchang Road Subdistrict ()

Towns

* Diyiguan () *

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() *

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()

Climate

The climate is hot-summer humid continental with a

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal osci ...

pattern (''Dwa'':).

References

External links

Shanhaiguan District official website
County-level divisions of Hebei Qinhuangdao {{Qinhuangdao-geo-stub