Shouning County
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Shouning County (; Foochow Romanized: Sêu-nìng-gâing) is a small county located in the northeast of Fujian province of People's Republic of China, bordering Zhejiang province to the northeast. It is under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, An Eastern Min dialect of Min Chinese (similar to the Fuzhou dialect) is spoken there.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Shouning County is referenced by 122 other articles, and connects out to province of China, covered bridge and Chinese.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm3rd_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics County-level divisions of Fujian and Ningde.
Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Shouning County
- Settlement.other_name
- Showning
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County
- Settlement.image_skyline
- A Temple in Nanyang Town.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A temple in Nanyang
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- China Fujian
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Shouning
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of the seat in Fujian
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Fujian
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ningde
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1433
- Settlement.population_total
- 177,960
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020 census
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county of China
- Official name
- 寿宁县
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Ningde
- Contains
- Xiadang Township
- Population
- 177960
- Area
- 1432.97
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.fjsn.gov.cn
- Image
- Jide Country, Fengyang Township.jpg
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- Commons category
- Shouning County
- postal code
- 355500
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Administrative divisions
- Towns
- Townships
- Climate
- Economy
- Notable people
- In popular culture
- References
- External links
Shouning County (; Foochow Romanized: Sêu-nìng-gâing) is a small county located in the northeast of Fujian province of People's Republic of China, bordering Zhejiang province to the northeast. It is under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, An Eastern Min dialect of Min Chinese (similar to the Fuzhou dialect) is spoken there.
There are a number of covered bridges located there, and of the 100 or so woven timber arch "lounge bridges" throughout China, Shouning County has 19. The county hosted the second international conference on Chinese covered bridges from September 20 to 23, 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shouning County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations