Zhangbei () is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

in and the seat of government of

Zhangbei County Zhangbei County (), in northwestern Hebei province, China, is a county formerly in the Chahar (province), Chahar province. Its name, which literally means "North of Zhang iakou, derives from the fact that it is north-northeast of Zhangjiakou. Z ...

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It served as the capital of the Imperial Japanese puppet state,

Mengjiang Mengjiang, also known as Mengkiang, officially the Mengjiang United Autonomous Government, was an autonomous zone in Inner Mongolia, formed in 1939 as a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, then from 1940 being under the nominal sovereignty ...

from 1 September 1939–19 August 1945.

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