Ningcheng County (

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: ; zh, s=宁城县) is a county of southeastern

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

, China, bordering

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province to the east. It is under the administration of

Chifeng Chifeng,; also known as Ulanhad ( (Улаанхад хот), ''Ulaɣanqada qota'', , "red cliff") also known as Ulankhad in Mongolian, is a prefecture-level city in Southeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It borders Xilin Gol Le ...

City. The

daohugouthallus ''Daohugouthallus'' is a monotypic genus of lichen, known from fossils found in the Jurassic Haifanggou Formation near Daohugou village, Ningcheng County, China. The genus contains a single species, ''D. ciliiferus''. Although ''Daohugoutha ...

extinct genus of

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was found near Daohugou village in Ningcheng County. The county contains the

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of "Liao Middle Capital" ''Dading Fu'', one of five capitals of Liao. The city was later conquered by the 12th-century

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, who also named it as their Middle Capital; later they renamed it as the Northern Capital after moving the court to present-day

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.Theobald, Ulrich. ''China Knowledge''.
Chinese History - Jin Dynasty 金 (1115-1234): Map and Geography
. Accessed 19 Oct 2012. Today, all that remains of the historical capital are two pagodas, one built by the Liao dynasty and one built by the Jin dynasty; they are located near Daming Town, about 20 km west of the county government Tianyi Town, and about 120 km south of the prefectural city Chifeng.

Transport

The county is served by two railway stations. Ningcheng Station, opened in 2020, is a station of the

Chifeng–Kazuo high-speed railway The Chifeng–Kazuo high-speed railway (also referred to in Chinese as the Chika high-speed railway) is a double-track electrified railway connecting Chifeng, Inner Mongolia and Kazuo Station of the Beijing–Shenyang high-speed railway. The lin ...

, and provides high-speed rail services to

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, and

. The older Tianyi Railway Station was built in 1935, and is a station of the Yechi Railway that runs between

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and Chifeng. While it primary serves as a cargo station today, there remains a once-daily passenger service from the station.

Administrative divisions

Ningcheng County is made up of 3

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, 13

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and 2

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. Others: * Zhongjing Industrial Park (中京工业园) * Saifeiya Food Industrial Park (塞飞亚食品工业园) * Burhan Alcohol Industrial Park (八里罕酒业园区) * Renewable Resources Industrial Park (再生资源产业园) * Biotechnology Industrial Park (生物科技产业园区) * Xizi Industrial Park (汐子工业园) * Agricultural Machinery Industrial Park (农机产业园区)

Climate

Gallery

File:Tianyi Station.jpg, Tianyi Railway Station File:Ningcheng Station.jpg, Ningcheng Railway Station Daming Pagoda Walls.jpg, Remnants of the old city walls Daming Details 4.jpg, Details on the Daming Pagoda Daming Details 1.jpg, Details on the Daming Pagoda Daming Details 2.jpg, Details on the Daming Pagoda Daming Details 3.jpg, Details on the Daming Pagoda Ningcheng Museum.jpg, Ningcheng Museum

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{{Authority control County-level divisions of Inner Mongolia Chifeng

Transport

Administrative divisions

Climate

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