Lintong District (), formerly Lintong County, is one of 11
urban districts of the
prefecture-level city
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of
Xi'an
Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...
, the capital of
Shaanxi Province
Shaanxi is a 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 the west. Shaanxi ...
,
Northwest China. The district was approved to establish from the former ''Lintong County'' () by the
Chinese State Council on June 25, 1997.
The
Terracotta Army and the
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was discovered in March 1974 near this district. The district borders the
prefecture-level cities of
Xianyang
Xianyang ( zh, s=咸阳 , p=Xiányáng) is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi province, situated on the Wei River a few kilometers upstream (west) from the provincial capital of Xi'an. Once the capital of the Qin dynasty, it is now int ...
to the northwest and
Weinan to the east,
Gaoling County to the northeast,
Baqiao District to the southeast,
Lianhu and
Xincheng Districts to the south, and
Chang'an District to the southwest.
Artifacts from the tomb of
Qin Shi Huang
Qin Shi Huang (, ; February 25912 July 210 BC), born Ying Zheng () or Zhao Zheng (), was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of China. He is widely regarded as the first ever supreme leader of a unitary state, unitary d ...
, China's first emperor, can be viewed at the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum () in Lintong District.
The
National Time Service Center, the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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(), formerly known as Shaanxi Astronomical Observatory (), was established in 1966 in Lintong responsible for the
time standard
A time standard is a specification for measuring time: either the rate at which time passes or points in time or both. In modern times, several time specifications have been officially recognized as standards, where formerly they were matters of cu ...
in
mainland China
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. It was renamed to its present name in 2001.
The name of the district comes from two rivers. Lin river is on the east side and Tong river is on the west side of the district.
Lintong is headquarters of the
47th Group Army of the
People's Liberation Army
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, one of the two group armies that comprise the
Lanzhou Military Region responsible for defending China's northwest borders.
Administrative divisions
As of 2020, Lintong District is divided to 23 subdistricts.
;Subdistricts
Climate
References
External links
Official website of Lintong District Government
Districts of Xi'an
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