Sujiatuo Area () is an area and a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

on the northwestern corner of

Haidian District Haidian District () is a district of the municipality of Beijing. It is mostly situated in northwestern Beijing, but also to a lesser extent in the west, where it has borders with Xicheng District and Fengtai District. It is 431 square km in a ...

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. It shares border with Yangfang Town to the north, Shangzhuang and Xibeiwang Town to the east,

Wenquan Wenquan () is a common name for places in the People's Republic of China: County *Wenquan County (温泉县), of the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Towns (温泉镇) * Wenquan, Anhui, in Yuexi County, Anhui, Yuexi County * Wenquan ...

and Juanzhuang Towns to the south, Miaofengshan and Liucun Towns to the west. It had a population of 78,235 in the year 2020. During the

Yuan dynasty The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fifth ...

this region was called Sujiakou Village, and the name was later changed to Sujiatuo () for a lump of soil on the north of the village.

History

Administrative Divisions

Sujiatuo Town was subdivided into 28 sections in 2021, including 9

communities A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...

, 10

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

and 9 residential areas for stock economic cooperatives:

Landmark

Dajue Temple The Dajue Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in the Haidian District of western Beijing, China. It was founded in the 11th century, and the current temple dates to a reconstruction in the 15th century during the Ming Dynasty. It contains three ...

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{{Subdivisions of Haidian District, Beijing Haidian District Towns in Beijing Areas of Beijing

History

Administrative Divisions

Landmark

See also

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