Daxing District

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Daxing District (Simplified Chinese: 大兴区; Traditional Chinese: 大興區; Hanyu Pinyin: Dàxīng Qū) is situated at the suburb of south Beijing. Daxing District was upgraded from a county to a district with the approval from the State Council on April 30, 2001. Covering an area of 1,012 square kilometers,Daxing District is divided into nine towns and 18 townships with a population of 520,000. A flat plain district it is one of the satellite cities of Beijing. Panggezhuang in Daxing is famous for its watermelons.


edit County-level divisions of Beijing Forbidden City
Districts: Dongcheng | Xicheng | Chongwen | Xuanwu | Chaoyang | Haidian | Fengtai | Shijingshan
Mentougou | Fangshan | Tongzhou | Shunyi | Changping | Daxing | Huairou | Pinggu
Counties: Miyun | Yanqing
see also: Township-level divisions of Beijing
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