Yuanzhou, Guyuan
Yuanzhou
原州区 ﻳُﻮًاﺟِﻮْ ٿِيُوِ | |
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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 | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Ningxia |
| Prefecture-level city | Guyuan |
| District seat | Nanguan Subdistrict |
| Area | |
| 2,739.01 km2 (1,057.54 sq mi) | |
| Population (2020 census) | |
| 471,329 | |
| • Density | 170/km2 (450/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 277,500 |
| • Rural | 199,200 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Yuanzhou, Guyuan | |||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 原州區 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 原州区 | ||||||||||||
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"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 | ||||||||||||
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| Guyuan County | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 固原縣 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 固原县 | ||||||||||||
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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.