Ningcheng County
宁城县 • ᠨᠢᠩᠴᠧᠩ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | |
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 The Liao Dynasty Daming Pagoda | |
  Ningcheng Location in Inner Mongolia  Ningcheng Ningcheng (China) | |
| Coordinates: 41°35′N 119°21′E / 41.583°N 119.350°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Inner Mongolia |
| Prefecture-level city | Chifeng |
| County seat | Tianyi |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,326 km2 (1,670 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 551 m (1,808 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 484,397 |
| • Density | 110/km2 (290/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 宁城县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 寧城縣 | ||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Нинчэн шиан | ||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠨᠢᠩᠴᠧᠩ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||
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Ningcheng County (Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠩᠴᠧᠩ ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ; Chinese: 宁城县) is a county of southeastern Inner Mongolia, China, bordering Liaoning province to the east. It is under the administration of Chifeng City.[2]
The daohugouthallus extinct genus of lichen was found near Daohugou village in Ningcheng County.[3] The county contains the historical site of "Liao Middle Capital" Dading Fu, one of five capitals of Liao. The city was later conquered by the 12th-century Jurchen Jin dynasty, who also named it as their Middle Capital; later they renamed it as the Northern Capital after moving the court to present-day Beijing.[4]
Today, all that remains of the historical capital are two pagodas, one built by the Liao dynasty and one built by the Jin dynasty; they are located near Daming Town, about 20km west of the county government Tianyi Town, and about 120km south of the prefectural city Chifeng.
- ^ Inner Mongolia: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
- ^ www.xzqh.org (in Chinese)
- ^ Wang, Xin; Krings, Michael; Taylor, Thomas N. (2010-11-01). "A thalloid organism with possible lichen affinity from the Jurassic of northeastern China". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 162 (4): 591–598. Bibcode:2010RPaPa.162..591W. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.07.005. ISSN 0034-6667.
- ^ Theobald, Ulrich. China Knowledge. "Chinese History - Jin Dynasty 金 (1115-1234): Map and Geography". Accessed 19 Oct 2012.