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Wanyuan () is a
county-level city A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...
in the northeast of
Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
province, China, located near the trisection of Sichuan,
Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...
, and
Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...
. Tamping Township is its municipality seat. Wanyuan has more than 406,685 inhabitants.


Administrative divisions

Wanyuan comprises 1 subdistrict, 25 towns and 5 townships: ;subdistricts: *Gudongguan 古东关街道 ;towns: *Taiping 太平镇 *Qinghua 青花镇 *Jiuyuan 旧院镇 *Luowen 罗文镇 *Hekou 河口镇 *Caoba 草坝镇 *Zhuyu 竹峪镇 *Dazhu 大竹镇 *Huangzhong 黄钟镇 *Guandu​官渡镇 *Baisha 白沙镇 *Shatan 沙滩镇 *Shiwo 石窝镇 *Batai 八台镇 *Shitang 石塘镇 *Tiekuang 铁矿镇 *Dasha 大沙镇 *Weijia 魏家镇 *Baiguo 白果镇 *Changba 长坝镇 *Jingxi 井溪镇 *Yingbei 鹰背镇 *Yongning 永宁镇 *Gujun 固军镇 *Heibaoshan 黑宝山镇 ;townships: *Fengtong 蜂桶乡 *Zengjia 曾家乡 *Yudai 玉带乡 *Miaozi 庙子乡 *Zixi 紫溪乡


Geography and climate

Wanyuan has a
monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in Atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annu ...
-influenced
humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a subtropical -temperate climate type, characterized by long and hot summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between ...
(
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
''Cwa''), with cool, damp winters and hot, humid summers; winter temperatures are significantly cooler than in the
Sichuan Basin The Sichuan Basin (), formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is drained by the upper Yangtze River and its tributar ...
. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July and August, the latter figure being comparable to
Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...
, while the annual mean is . About two-thirds of the of annual precipitation occurs from June to September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 20% in January and February to 49% in August, the city receives 1,372 hours of bright sunshine annually, with spring sunnier than autumn.


Transportation

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China National Highway 210 China National Highway 210 (G210) runs from Mandula in Baotou, Inner Mongolia to Fangchenggang, Guangxi. It is 3,097 kilometres in length and runs south from Baotou and passes through the province-level divisions of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, ...


References


External links


Official website of Wanyuan Government
County-level cities in Sichuan Dazhou {{Sichuan-geo-stub