Fenyang

Also known as Fen-yang, Fenyang County, Fen-yang County, Fenyang Shi, Fenyang City, City of Fenyang, Fen-yang-shih, Fen-yang City

Fenyang (), formerly as Fenyang County () before 1996, is a county-level city under the administration of Lüliang prefecture-level city, in Shanxi Province, China. thumb|left|Map including Fenyang (labeled as FEN-YANG (walled)) (Army Map Service|AMS, 1955) Fenyang is located in the wide valley of the Fen River, some 20-plus kilometers west of the actual river.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Fenyang
Settlement.native_name_lang: zh
Settlement.settlement_type: County-level city
Settlement.image_skyline: 汾阳关帝庙.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Temple of Guan Yu
Settlement.image_map: ChinaLuliangFenyang.png
Settlement.map_caption: Fenyang in Lüliang
Settlement.pushpin_map: China Shanxi
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Shanxi
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: People's Republic of China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Shanxi
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Prefecture-level city
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Lüliang
Settlement.seat_type: City seat
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 1175.3

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Wikidata facts

Official name: 汾阳县
Population: 407647
Area: 1170.05
Official website: www.fenyang.gov.cn
Dialing code: 358
Licence plate code: 晋J

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postal code: 032200
Commons category: Fenyang

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Fenyang was the birthplace of Jia Zhangke, who filmed 1997 Xiao Wu there. Platform is set from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s in and around Fenyang. Subsequently, Mountains May Depart features scenes set in Fenyang in 1999 and 2014. Fengyang is also the birthplace of Guo Qinglan (), the widow of Dwarkanath Kotnis.