Anguo | |
Other Name: | Ankwo |
Settlement Type: | County-level city |
Pushpin Map: | China Hebei |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Hebei |
Coordinates: | 38.418°N 115.327°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Hebei |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
Subdivision Name2: | Baoding |
Subdivision Type3: | Township-level divisions |
Seat Type: | Municipal seat |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation M: | 33 |
Elevation Ft: | 107 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Area Total Km2: | 485.1 |
Area Urban Km2: | 81.00 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 415000 |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Urban: | 109800 |
Timezone1: | China Standard |
Utc Offset1: | +8 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 071200 |
Area Code: | 0312 |
Order: | st |
Psp: | Ankwo |
T: | 安國 |
S: | 安国 |
W: | An1-kuo2 |
P: | Ānguó |
Qizhou | |
Psp: | Chichow |
C: | 祁州 |
W: | Ch'i2-chou1 |
P: | Qízhōu |
Anguo, nicknamed "Medicine Capital" (Chinese: 药都), is a county-level city under the administration of and south of Baoding, central Hebei province, China.[2]
It has a provincially protected Temple of the God of Medicine (Chinese: 藥王廟) established around 100.
In premodern China, Anguo was Qizhou . In 1991, Anguo was changed from county into a city. The city governs 20 town-level entities in 486km2, of which the centrally placed Yaocheng is the municipal seat. The Chinese playwright Guan Hanqing was born here.
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