Shitai County () is a county in the south of
Anhui Province
Anhui is an inland province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiangxi to the south, Hub ...
, People's Republic of China, under the jurisdiction of the
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...
of
Chizhou
Chizhou () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Anhui province, China. It borders Anqing to the northwest, Tongling and Wuhu to the northeast, Xuancheng to the east, Huangshan to the southeast, and the province of Jiangxi to the southwest ...
. It has population of and an area of . The government of Shitai County is located in Qili Town. Shitai County is a producer of silk and tea leaves.
The well-known "Guniujiang" National Nature Reserve is located on the border between Shitai County and
Qimen County
Qimen County (; alternately romanized as Keemun) is a county in the southeast of Anhui Province, China, bordering Jiangxi Province to the southwest. It is the westernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Huangshan City. It ...
. It is said that the "Guniujiang" has the last piece of original forest in East China.
Administrative divisions
Shitai County has jurisdiction over six
towns
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
and two
townships.
Towns:
*
Renli (),
Hengdu (),
Xianyu (),
Qidu (),
Xiaohe (),
Dingxiang ()
Townships:
*
Dayan Township (),
Jitan Township ()
Climate
References
County-level divisions of Anhui
Chizhou
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