Nanping

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This article is about the city in Jiangsu Province, China. For the Ten Kingdoms-era kingdom also known as Nanping, see Jingnan

南平市
Nánpíng Shì
Also known as: 闽北 (pinyin: Mǐnběi)
Image:ChinaFujianNanping.png
Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
Area	26,300 km²
Population	2.86 million
GDP	¥11265 per capita (2004)
Major Nationalities	Han
County-level divisions	10
Township-level divisions	140
Area Code	599

Nanping (Simplified Chinese: 南平; pinyin: Nánpíng) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningde City to the east, Sanming City to the south, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi to the north and west respectively.

[edit] Administration

The prefecture-level city city of Ningde administers 1 district, 4 county-level cities and 5 counties.

Yanping District (延平区)
Shaowu City (邵武市)
Wuyishan City (武夷山市)
Jian'ou City (建瓯市)
Jianyang City (建阳市)
Shunchang County (顺昌县)
Pucheng County (浦城县)
Guangze County (光泽县)
Songxi County (松溪县)
Zhenghe County (政和县)

[edit] Description

From "Camps and Trails in China" by Roy C. and Yvette Andrews (1918) currently in the public domain and available from www.gutenberg.org: "Yen-ping [Nanping] is a wonderfully picturesque old city, situated on a hill at a fork of the river [Min Jiang] and surrounded by high stone walls pierced and loopholed for rifle fire. Such walls, while of little use against artillery, nevertheless offer a formidable obstacle to anything less than field guns as we ourselves were destined to discover. ... But the delights of Yen-ping are somewhat tempered by the abominable weather. In summer the heat is almost unbearable and the air is so nearly saturated from continual rain that it is impossible to dry anything except over a fire. From all reports winter must be almost as bad in the opposite extreme for the cold is damp and penetrating; but the early fall is said to be delightful."