Santai County ( zh, t=三台縣, s=三台县, w=San1-t῾ai2 Hsien4, p=Sāntái Xiàn; Sichuanese romanization: ''San-t῾ai Shien''; formerly known as Tungchwanfu, Sichuanese romanization: Tongchuanfu) is a county under the administration of the

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Mianyang Mianyang ( zh, s=绵阳, t=綿陽, w=Mien2-yang2, p=Miányáng; Sichuanese Pinyin, Sichuanese romanization: ''Mien-iang''; formerly known as Mienchow, zh, t=綿州, p=Mianzhou, links=no; Sichuanese romanization: ''Miencheo''; ) is the second lar ...

, in the northeast of

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of China. It has an area of . According to the 2020 census, its population stands at 955,800.

Administrative divisions

Santai County comprises 31 towns and 2 townships: ;towns: *Tongchuan 潼川镇 *Tashan 塔山镇 *Longshu 龙树镇 *Shi'an 石安镇 *Fushun 富顺镇 *Sanyuan 三元镇 *Qiulin 秋林镇 *Xinde 新德镇 *Xinsheng 新生镇 *Luban 鲁班镇 *Jingfu 景福镇 *Zihe 紫河镇 *Guanqiao 观桥镇 *Qijiang 郪江镇 *Zhongxin 中新镇 *Gujing 古井镇 *Xiping 西平镇 *Badong 八洞镇 *Le'an 乐安镇 *Jianping 建平镇 *Zhongtai 中太镇 *Jinshi 金石镇 *Xinlu 新鲁镇 *Liuying 刘营镇 *Lingxing 灵兴镇 *Luxi 芦溪镇 *Lixin 立新镇 *Yongming 永明镇 *Jianzhong 建中镇 *Laoma 老马镇 *Beiba 北坝镇 ;townships: *Zhongxiao 忠孝乡 *Duanshi 断石乡

Quaker mission

During the late 19th and first half of 20th century, Tungchwan was one of the mission centres of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association (FFMA), being the largest mission branch of FFMA's Northern District.

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-affiliated hospital,

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, boys' school and girls' boarding school were built during this period. The British political economist and missionary Audrey Donnithorne was born at a Quaker hospital in Santai.

Climate

References

External links

Official website of Santai County government
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