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Baicheng
Baicheng () is a prefecture-level city in the northwestern part of Jilin province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Heilongjiang to the east and northeast. At the 2010 census, 2,033,058 people lived within its administrative area of .
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- Baicheng
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- 白城市
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- zh
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Baicheng Railway Station
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- Location of Baicheng City (yellow) in Jilin (light grey)
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- Country
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- People's Republic of China
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Baicheng () is a prefecture-level city in the northwestern part of Jilin province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Heilongjiang to the east and northeast. At the 2010 census, 2,033,058 people lived within its administrative area of .
== Toponymy == By 1938 the area was renamed to Baicheng, which in Chinese means white town. The name's origin is the Mongolian name of the city Chaghanhot, which also means "white town".
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