Liancheng County () is a county in the municipal region of

Longyan Longyan ( zh, s=龙岩 , t=龍巖, p=, poj=Lêng-nâ or Liong-nâ, l=dragon rock; Hakka: ''Liùng-ngàm''; Longyan dialect: ''Liông-nâ iɔŋ˩nã˩') is a prefecture-level city in south-western Fujian Province, China, bordering Guangdong t ...

, Fujian, People's Republic of China.

Geography

Liancheng borders Changting and Shanghang counties to the west and south, and Xinluo, the municipal seat, to the southeast.

Sanming Sanming ( zh, s=, p=Sānmíng, Foochow Romanized: Săng-mìng), also known as Minzhong ( zh, s=闽中 , t=閩中 , 中=Mǐnzhōng , links=no), is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, China. It borders Nanping City to the north, Fuz ...

Municipality's Yong'an City and

Qingliu County Qingliu () is a county of western Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Sanming City. Administration The county executive, legislature, and judiciary The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, ...

lie to the east and northeast. Two watersheds meet here, with most of the county's rivers flowing north and east to the Min River and the

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, and the remainder flowing southwest to the

Ting River The Ting River () flows from Ninghua County in western Fujian south to the port and Special Economic Zone of Shantou, Guangdong. It is a main tributary of the Han River and is also referred to Hakka Mother River (). The former prefecture of ...

system and the

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Climate

Transportation

Liancheng county is crossed by National Route 205 ( Yong'an downtown-- Shanghang centre). The Ganzhou–Longyan Railway passes through Liancheng.

Sights

In 2005 Peitian, an 800 year old village, was designated as "National Historical and Cultural Village".

References

{{Authority control County-level divisions of Fujian Longyan