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Dingzhou
Sign in to saveDingzhou, formerly romanized Tingchow and formerly known as Ding County or Dingxian, is a county-level city in the prefecture-level city of Baoding in Hebei Province, China. As of 2020, Dingzhou had a population of 1.1 million. Dingzhou has 3 subdistricts, 13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township. Dingzhou is about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, southwest of Beijing, and northeast of Shijiazhuang.
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- Tingchow
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- Dingzhou
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- County-level city
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- 073000
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- Dingzhou skyline seen from Shuohuang Railway
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- Location in Baoding
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- People's Republic of China
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- Hebei
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Baoding
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- China Hebei
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- Location in Hebei
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Dingzhou, formerly romanized Tingchow and formerly known as Ding County or Dingxian, is a county-level city in the prefecture-level city of Baoding in Hebei Province, China. As of 2020, Dingzhou had a population of 1.1 million. Dingzhou has 3 subdistricts, 13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township. Dingzhou is about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, southwest of Beijing, and northeast of Shijiazhuang.
==History== Dingzhou was originally known as Lunu in early imperial China. A tomb about southwest of Dingzhou from 55–8BCE was discovered and excavated in 1973. It contained several fragments of Han literature, including manuscripts of Confucius's Analects, the Taoist Wenzi, and the Six Secret Teachings, a military treatise. Four further manuscripts remain unpublished. The identity of the tomb's occupant is unknown, but Chinese archaeologists have speculated that it belonged to one of two kings of the Zhongshan fiefdom under the Former Han dynasty: either Liu Xiu or Liu Xing.