Mizhi County () is a county of

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, China. Mizhi is situated in the

Loess Plateau The Loess Plateau is a plateau in north-central China formed of loess, a clastic rock, clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of Dust#Atmospheric, wind-blown dust. It is located southeast of the Gobi Desert and is surrounded by t ...

on the banks of

Wuding River The Wuding River () begins in the Ordos Desert in Shaanxi Province, Inner Mongolia and flows south into loess canyons and farmland. After around it flows into the great Yellow River. The Wuding has its own tributaries, such as the Dali River, Ha ...

. The county is established in 1226, named after Mizhizhai (Mizhi Stockade). It was renamed Tianbao in about 1643 by

Li Zicheng Li Zicheng (22 September 1606 – 1645), born Li Hongji, also known by his nickname, the Thunder King, was a Chinese Late Ming peasant rebellions, peasant rebel leader who helped overthrow the Ming dynasty in April 1644 and ruled over northe ...

, but was restored as Mizhi soon. Li had additionally built his temporary palace in the county. During the second Sino-Japanese war, it was administered by the

Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region The Yan'an Soviet was a soviet governed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the 1930s and 1940s. In October 1936 it became the final destination of the Long March, and served as the CCP's main base until after the Second Sino-Japanese War ...

government.

Administrative divisions

, Mizhi County is divided to 1 subdistricts and 7 towns. ;Subdistricts * Yinzhou Subdistrict () ;Towns

Climate

Transportation

China National Highway 210 China National Highway 210 (G210) runs from Mandula in Baotou, Inner Mongolia to Fangchenggang, Guangxi. It is 3,097 kilometres in length and runs south from Baotou and passes through the province-level divisions of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, ...

Notes and references

References

County-level divisions of Shaanxi Yulin, Shaanxi {{Shaanxi-geo-stub