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.
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
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- China Fujian
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Shouning
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- Location of the seat in Fujian
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- 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
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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.
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