Anguo
Anguo
安国市 Ankwo | |
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Temple for the God of Medicine | |
Location in Baoding | |
| Coordinates: 38°25′05″N 115°19′37″E / 38.418°N 115.327°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hebei |
| Prefecture-level city | Baoding |
| Area | |
| 485.1 km2 (187.3 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 81.00 km2 (31.27 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 33 m (107 ft) |
| Population (2017) | |
| 415,000 | |
| • Density | 860/km2 (2,200/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 109,800 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 071200 |
| Area code | 0312 |
| Website | anguo |
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| Simplified Chinese | 安国 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 安國 | ||||||||
| Postal | Ankwo | ||||||||
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| Qizhou | |||||||||
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| Chinese | 祁州 | ||||||||
| Postal | Chichow | ||||||||
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Anguo (simplified Chinese: 安国; traditional Chinese: 安國; pinyin: Ānguó), nicknamed "Medicine Capital" (药都), is a county-level city under the administration of and 52 kilometres (32 mi) south of Baoding, central Hebei province, China.
It has a provincially protected Temple of the God of Medicine (藥王廟) established around 100.
In premodern China, Anguo was Qizhou (Chinese: 祁州; pinyin: Qízhōu). In 1991, Anguo was changed from county into a city. The city governs 20 town-level entities in 486 km2 (188 sq mi), of which the centrally placed Yaocheng (药城; Yàochéng) is the municipal seat. The Chinese playwright Guan Hanqing was born here.