Yuanzhou District, Guyuan

Former names
	"Cou-yuen-tcheou" and other "second-order" towns of Shaan-Gan, from Du Halde's 1736 Description of China, based on reports from Jesuit missionaries
Guyuan Prefecture
Chinese	固原州
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gùyuán Zhōu
Wade–Giles	Ku-yüan Chou
Guyuan County
Traditional Chinese	固原縣
Simplified Chinese	固原县
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gùyuán Xiàn
Wade–Giles	Ku-yüan Hsien

Yuanzhou District, Guyuan
Traditional Chinese	原州區
Simplified Chinese	原州区
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yuánzhōu Qū
Wade–Giles	Yüan-chou Ch’ü

Yuanzhou
Yuanzhou; 原州区
	District
	Yuanzhou in Guyuan
	Guyuan in Ningxia
	Coordinates (Yuanzhou government): 36°00′13″N 106°17′16″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Ningxia
Prefecture-level city	Guyuan
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Yuanzhou District, formerly Guyuan, is a district and the seat of the city of Guyuan in the south of Ningxia, China, bordering Gansu province to the northeast. It has a total area of 3,914 square kilometers (1,511 sq mi) and a population of 510,000 people.

History

Yuanzhou includes the old town of Guyuan or Guyuanzhou, which administered a prefecture in imperial times and a county before its urbanization.

Characteristics

Yuanzhou District administers eight towns, six townships, and one office. It is the economic, political, and transportation center of Guyuan. Although the district is located in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the proportion of Hui residents is actually smaller than the proportion of Han Chinese. 80 percent of the district's residents are farmers. The district government is located on Government Street, and the district's postal code is 756000.

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