Chenyang Town () is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
and the
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. The equivalent term shire town is used in the US ...
in the middle western
Chenxi County
Chenxi County () is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Huaihua prefecture-level City.
Located on the north of the province, it is adjacent to the north of the city proper of Huaihua. The county is bordered to th ...
,
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, Jiangxi ...
,
China. The town was reformed through the amalgamation of
''Chengjiao'' Township () and the former ''Chenyang Town'' on November 19, 2015, it has an area of with a population of 78,400 (as of 2015 end). Its
seat of local government
The seat of government is (as defined by ''Brewer's Politics'') "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority".
In most countries, the nation’s capital is also seat of its government, thus tha ...
is at ''Sangmuqiao Community'' ().
[the area and population of Chenyang Town in 2015, according to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Chenxi County on November 19, 2015, se]
rednet.cn (Dec.4, 2015)
《湖南省民政厅关于同意辰溪县乡镇区划调整方案的批复》(湘民行发〔2015〕52号)
References
Chenxi County
County seats in Hunan
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