Xinning
新宁县 Sinning | |
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Coordinates: 26°25′59″N 110°51′25″E / 26.433°N 110.857°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Hunan |
Prefecture-level city | Shaoyang |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Xinning | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 新寧 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 新宁 | ||||||
Literal meaning | Newly Pacified | ||||||
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Xinning County (Chinese: 新宁县; pinyin: Xīnníng Xiàn) is a county in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located on the south western margin of Hunan, the county is bordered to the northeast by Shaoyang County, to the northwest by Wugang City, to the west by Chengbu Autonomous County, to the south by Ziyuan County of Guangxi, to the east by Dong'an County. Xinning County covers 2,756.13 km2 (1,064.15 sq mi), as of 2015, it had a registered population of 649,700 and a permanent resident population of 574,100.[1] The county has eight towns and eight townships under its jurisdiction, the county seat is Jinshi (金石镇).[2]