Chengkou County () is a

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Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

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, China, and is the northernmost

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of Chongqing, bordering the provinces of

Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

and

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

to the north and west, respectively. To the northeast, the county borders Zhengping County, Pingli County,

Langao County Langao County () is a county under the administration of Ankang, in the south of Shaanxi province, China. It borders Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in S ...

and Ziyang County of

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. To the west, the county borders

Wanyuan Wanyuan () is a county-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, located near the trisection of Sichuan, Chongqing, and Shaanxi. Tamping Township is its municipality seat. Wanyuan has more than 406,685 inhabitants. Administrative di ...

and

Xuanhan County Xuanhan County () is a county in the northeast of Sichuan, Sichuan Province, China, bordering Chongqing to the east. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Dazhou. According to recent population census, Xuanhan county ha ...

Dazhou Dazhou ( zh, s= 达州 , t= 達州 , p=Dázhōu , w=Ta-chou) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. As of 2020 census, Dazhou was home t ...

. To the south, the county borders Chongqing's

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and

Wuxi County Wuxi County () is a county of Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Hubei to the northeast and east. Sitting at the upper reaches of Daning River and the southern slopes of the central Daba Mounta ...

. The county is mountainous, covering most of the

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in Chongqing municipality. Local delicacies are bacon, tea, honey, and walnut oil.

Administrative divisions

Chengkou County is composed of two subdistricts, ten towns, and thirteen townships. It formerly had 7

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and 17

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. Two subdistricts (街道): * Gecheng Subdistrict (, before 2009 Gecheng Town ()),

Fuxing Subdistrict Fuxing may refer to: * Fu star (福星), or Fuxing, Chinese deity *Fuxing (train) (复兴号, meaning "Rejuvenation"), China Standardized EMU operated by China Railway High-speed (CRH) * Fuxing Road (disambiguation) *Chinese compound surname (複� ...

() Ten towns (镇): *

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(), Pingba (), Miaoba (), Mingtong (), Xiuqi (), Gaoguan (), Gaoyan (, before 2012 Gaoyan Township ()), Dong'an (, before 2014 Dong'an Township ()), Xianyi (, before 2014 Xianyi Township ()), Gaonan (, before 2014 Gaonan Township ()) Thirteen townships (乡): * Longtian Township (), Beiping Township (), Zuolan Township (), Yanhe Township (), Shuanghe Township (), Liaozi Township (), Jiming Township (), Zhouxi Township (), Mingzhong Township (), Zhiping Township (), Lantian Township (), Houping Township (), Heyu Township ()

Climate

References

External links

Official website of Chengkou County Government
County-level divisions of Chongqing {{Chongqing-geo-stub