Boxing County
Boxing County | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 博興縣 | ||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 博兴县 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Amply Rising County | ||||||||
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Former names | |||||||||
Putai at the head of the Yellow River in 1878[1] | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 蒲台縣 | ||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 蒲台县 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Bullrush Terrace County | ||||||||
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"Putai County" redirects here. For the former county seat, see Binzhou's Pucheng Subdistrict.
Boxing County is a county of Binzhou in Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China.
History
The area of Boxing County was mostly created within the last few millennia and long remained sparsely populated owing to the destructive floods of the Yellow River.
In March 1956, Boxing absorbed most of the former Putai County, although Putai itself now forms the Pucheng area of Binzhou. Putai County had been established in 596.[lower-alpha 1]
Transportation
Notes
References
- ↑ "China", Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, 1878.
External links
- Official website (Chinese)
- "博兴县" and "蒲台县" at Baidu Baike (Chinese)
Coordinates: 37°10′41″N 118°13′34″E / 37.1781°N 118.226°E
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