Daying County () is a county of

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 ...

province, China, under the administration of

Suining Suining ( zh, s=遂宁 , t=遂寧; Sichuanese Pinyin: Xu4nin2; Sichuanese pronunciation: ; zh, p=Sùiníng , w=Sui-ning) is a prefecture-level city of eastern Sichuan province in Southwest China. According to the 2020 census, Suining had a p ...

City and in the central part of the

Sichuan Basin The Sichuan Basin (), formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is drained by the upper Yangtze River and its tributar ...

. In 2020, it had a population of 387,299 residing in an area of .

Tourist attractions

Daying is the home of the "", a tourist attraction that is based on a salt lake with nine times the salinity of the ocean and which constitutes the largest indoor water park in China. A stationary replica of the ''Titanic'' is under construction in Daying County as well.

Administrative divisions

Daying County comprises 1 subdistrict and 9 towns: ;subdistrict *盐井街道 ;towns *Penglai 蓬莱镇 *Longsheng 隆盛镇 *Huima 回马镇 *Tianbao 天保镇 *Hebian 河边镇 *Zhuotongjing 卓筒井镇 *Yufeng 玉峰镇 *Xiangshan 象山镇 *Jinyuan 金元镇

Transportation

The

G42 Shanghai–Chengdu Expressway The Shanghai–Chengdu Expressway (), designated as G42 and commonly referred to as the Hurong Expressway () is an east–west bound expressway that connects the eastern metropolis of Shanghai to Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan. The expressw ...

and

Dazhou–Chengdu Railway Dazhou–Chengdu Railway or Dacheng Railway (), is a double-track, electrified railroad in Sichuan Province of southwest China. The railway is named after its two terminal cities Chengdu and Dazhou. The line has a total length of and opened in ...

(达成铁路) traverses east–west through the entire length of the county. The county is served by the Daying East Station ( 大英东站) on the Suining–Chengdu Railway.

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County-level divisions of Sichuan {{Sichuan-geo-stub