Ding County
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Dingzhou 定州市 |
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| Sub-prefecture-level city | |
 Dingzhou
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| Coordinates: 38°31′N 114°59′E / 38.517°N 114.983°ECoordinates: 38°31′N 114°59′E / 38.517°N 114.983°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Hebei |
| Prefecture-level city | Baoding |
| Area | |
| • Sub-prefecture-level city | 1,274 km2 (492 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 25 km2 (10 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 58 m (189 ft) |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Sub-prefecture-level city | 1,200,000 |
| • Density | 940/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 216,000 |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 073000 |
| Area code(s) | 0312 |
| License Plate Prefix | 冀F |
| Website | http://www.dingzhou.gov.cn/ |
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| Chinese | 定州 | ||||||||
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| Postal | Tingchow | ||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 定县(former name) | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 定縣(former name) | ||||||||
| Postal | Tingsien | ||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dìngzhōu |
| Wade–Giles | Ting4-chou1 |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dìng Xiàn |
| Wade–Giles | Ting4-hsien4 |
Dingzhou (Chinese: 定州; pinyin: Dìngzhōu), formerly Dingxian (simplified Chinese: 定县; traditional Chinese: 定縣; pinyin: Dìngxiàn postal: Tingsien) is a county-level city with sub-prefecture-level city status, located under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Baoding in the southwest of Hebei Province in northern China, about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang. As of 2009, Dingzhou had a population of 1.2 million. Dingzhou has 3 subdistricts, 13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township. Dingzhou is 196 kilometres (122 mi) southwest of Beijing, 68 kilometres (42 mi) northeast of Shijiazhuang.
China's tallest pre-modern pagoda, the 84-metre-tall (276 ft) Liaodi Pagoda, is located here, built in 1055 during the Song Dynasty. In 1973 a tomb was excavated about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) southwest of Dingzhou dating to 55 BCE and containing several fragments of Chinese literary works, including an early manuscript of the Analects of Confucius, a manuscript of a Daoist work known as Wenzi and fragments of the military treatise Liu tao.
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