Tongcheng () is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

and former

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in the southwest of

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze Riv ...

province and is under the jurisdiction of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of Chi ...

Anqing Anqing (, also Nganking, formerly Hwaining, now the name of Huaining County) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhui province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 4,165,284 as of the 2020 census, with 804,493 living in the ...

. Its population is and its area is . Tongcheng is noted for the Tongcheng School.

Administrative divisions

Tongcheng City has jurisdiction over 3 subdistricts, 12 towns and 2 others. ;Subdistricts * Longteng Subdistrict () * Wenchang Subdistrict () * Longmin Subdistrict () ;Towns ;Others *

Tongcheng Economic Development Zone Tongcheng may refer to the following places in China: *Tongcheng, Anhui (桐城市), county-level city *Tongcheng County (), Xianning, Hubei * Tongcheng, Linquan County (同城镇), Anhui * Tongcheng, Tianchang (铜城镇), Anhui * Tongcheng, Shan ...

() *

Tongcheng Shuangxin Economic Development Zone Tongcheng may refer to the following places in China: *Tongcheng, Anhui (桐城市), county-level city *Tongcheng County (), Xianning, Hubei * Tongcheng, Linquan County (同城镇), Anhui * Tongcheng, Tianchang (铜城镇), Anhui * Tongcheng, Shan ...

()

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Notable people

* Zhang Tingyu, advisor to three Qing Dynasty emperors * Chu Bo, the former governor of

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangx ...

Province, and currently party chief in

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

, was born in Tongcheng. * Fang Bao, author * Fang Lanfen, author * Fang Quan, author, Qing prefect *

Fang Chih Fang Chih or Fang Zhi (; 23 November 1895 – 28 March 1989), courtesy name: Xikong (希孔), was a politician, provincial governor, diplomat, author and a high-ranking Kuomintang official of the Republic of China. Family history and early l ...

, Chinese diplomat * Gui Congyou, diplomat, appointed China's ambassador to Sweden in 2017 * Wang Wenbin, diplomat, one of the spokesperson for the

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* Zuo Guangdou, late Ming Dynasty censorate official

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