Lingbao City

Lingbao 灵宝市 Lingpao
County-level city
Lingbao Location of the city center in Henan
Coordinates: 34°31′03″N 110°53′39″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Henan
Prefecture-level city	Sanmenxia
Area
• Total	3,011 km2 (1,163 sq mi)
Population  (2019)
• Total	736,300
• Density	240/km2 (630/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	472500
Website	Archived link

Lingbao City
Simplified Chinese	灵宝市
Traditional Chinese	靈寶市
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Língbǎo shì Wade–Giles Ling2-pao3 si5

Lingbao (Chinese: 灵宝; postal: Lingpao) is a county-level city and the westernmost county-level division of Henan province, China, bordering the provinces of Shanxi to the north and Shaanxi to the west. In ancient times, the Hongnong Commandery was located approximately 20 km south of there. Since 2005, there is a HVDC back-to-back station built by ABB with a transmission rate of 360 MW.

Lingbao city has a population of 720,000 residents in 2006.

Administrative divisions

As 2012, this city is divided to 10 towns and 5 townships.

Towns

Chengguan (城关镇) Yinzhuang (尹庄镇) Zhuyang (朱阳镇) Yangping (阳平镇) Guxian (故县镇)

Yuling (豫灵镇) Lingbao (大王镇) Yangdian (阳店镇) Hanguguan (函谷关镇) Jiaocun (焦村镇)

Townships

Chuankou Township (川口乡) Sihe Township (寺河乡) Sucun Township (苏村乡)

Wumiao Township (五亩乡) Xiyan Township (西阎乡)

Transportation

• China National Highway 209

See also

• Prince of Hongnong

References

• 弘農. Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典) (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 2008-01-01.

External links

• Lingbao official website (in Chinese)