Yuanzhou, Guyuan

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Yuanzhou 原州区 ﻳُﻮًاﺟِﻮْ ٿِيُوِ
District
Yuanzhou District in 2010
Yuanzhou in Guyuan
Guyuan in Ningxia
Coordinates (Yuanzhou government): 36°00′13″N 106°17′16″E / 36.0037°N 106.2878°E / 36.0037; 106.2878
Country	China
Autonomous region	Ningxia
Prefecture-level city	Guyuan
District seat	Nanguan Subdistrict
Area
• District	2,739.01 km2 (1,057.54 sq mi)
Population  (2020 census)[1]
• District	471,329
• Density	170/km2 (450/sq mi)
• Urban [2]	277,500
• Rural [2]	199,200
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.yzh.gov.cn

Former names
"Cou-yuen-tcheou" and other "second-order" towns of Shaan-Gan, from Du Halde's 1736 Description of China, based on reports from Jesuit missionaries
Guyuan Prefecture
Chinese	固原州
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gùyuán Zhōu Wade–Giles Ku-yüan Chou other Mandarin Xiao'erjing قُ‌يُوًا جِوْ
Guyuan County
Traditional Chinese	固原縣
Simplified Chinese	固原县
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gùyuán Xiàn Wade–Giles Ku-yüan Hsien other Mandarin Xiao'erjing قُ‌يُوًا ثِيًا

Yuanzhou District, formerly Guyuan, is a district and the seat of the city of Guyuan in the south of Ningxia, China, bordering Gansu province to the northeast. It has a total area of 3,914 square kilometers (1,511 sq mi) and a population of 510,000 people.

Yuanzhou District is the economic, political, and transportation center of Guyuan. It includes the old town of Guyuan or Guyuanzhou, which administered a prefecture in imperial times and a county before its urbanization.