Lianyuan
Sign in to saveLianyuan () is a county-level city and the 7th most populous county-level division in Hunan Province, China; it is under the administration of Loudi prefecture-level City. Located on the geographical centre of Hunan, the city is bordered to the north by Anhua and Ningxiang Counties, to the east by Louxing District, to the south by Shuangfeng, Shaodong and Xinshao Counties, to the west by Lengshuijiang City and Xinhua County. Lianyuan City covers . As of the 2010 census, it has a registered population of 1,162,928 and a resident population of 995,712. The city has a subdistrict, 16 towns and tw
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Lianyuan
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level city
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 4171XX
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- Sanjia Township in Lianyuan, Hunan 2025012604.jpg
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- Sanjia Township
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- ChinaLoudiLianyuan.png
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- Location of Lianyuan City within Loudi
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- China Hunan
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- Location in Hunan
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hunan
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Loudi
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- Subdivisions
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1,830.01
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county-level city
- Official name
- 涟源县
- Country
- China
- Population
- 862099
- Area
- 1829.8
- Elevation
- 165
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.lianyuan.gov.cn
- Image
- Sanjia Township in Lianyuan, Hunan 2025012604.jpg
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- postal code
- 4171XX
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- Lianyuan
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Lianyuan () is a county-level city and the 7th most populous county-level division in Hunan Province, China; it is under the administration of Loudi prefecture-level City. Located on the geographical centre of Hunan, the city is bordered to the north by Anhua and Ningxiang Counties, to the east by Louxing District, to the south by Shuangfeng, Shaodong and Xinshao Counties, to the west by Lengshuijiang City and Xinhua County. Lianyuan City covers . As of the 2010 census, it has a registered population of 1,162,928 and a resident population of 995,712. The city has a subdistrict, 16 towns and two townships under its jurisdiction, the government seat is Lantian Subdistrict ().
==History== Dividing parts of four counties of Xiangxiang, Anhua, Xinhua and Shaoyang, Lianyuan County was created in February 1952 and named after the place where it is located in the origin of the Lian River. The county-level city of Loudi (modern Louxing District) was formed by seven communes from Lianyuan County (the modern Lianyuan City) in January 1961. The county of Lianyuan was reorganized as the city of Lianyuan in 1987.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lianyuan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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