Xiagezhuang 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 inside 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 ...
,
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 ...
,
China. It is situated near the
alluvial plain
An alluvial plain is a largely flat landform created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms. A floodplain is part of the process, being the s ...
of
Ju River. The town shares border with
Shandongzhuang Town in the north,
Nandulehe Town in the east, Xujiatai Village and Duanjialing Town in the south,
Donggaocun Town in the southwest, as well as
Pinggu Town and
Xinggu Subdistrict in the northwest. It was home to 26,185 inhabitants as of 2020.
The name Xiagezhuang () refers to Xiagezhuang Village, where the town's government is located.
History
Administrative divisions
So far in 2021, Xiagezhuang Town has direct jurisdiction over 18 subdivisions, with 3 of them being
communities and 15 of them being
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 ...
. They are, by the order of their
Administrative Division Codes:
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