Wangxinzhuang Town () is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
located in the western part of
Pinggu District
Pinggu District (), formerly Pinggu County (), lies in the far east of Beijing Municipality. It has an area of and a population of 396,701 (2000 Census). The district is subdivided into 2 subdistricts, 14 towns, and 2 townships. It borders the Be ...
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Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
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China. It shares border with
Dahuashan Town and Xiong'erzhai Township to the north,
Shandongzhuang Town and
Xinggu Subdistrict in the east,
Pinggu and Daxingzhuang Towns in the south, and
Yukou Town in the west. Its population was 30,586 in 2020.
This town name was taken from Wangxinzhuang Village, the place where the town's government is hosted.
History
Administrative divisions
So far in 2021, Wangxinzhuang Town is composed of 23
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 ...
, as listed in the table below:
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Beijing
This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative div ...
References
{{Subdivisions of Pinggu District, Beijing
Pinggu District
Towns in Beijing