Monday, October 13, 2008

Anguo

Anguo , nicknamed "Medicine Capital" , is a county-level city in the regional city of Baoding, central Hebei Province, China, south of Beijing.

It has a provincially protected Temple of the God of Medicine established around 100.

In premodern China, Anguo was Qizhou . In 1991, Anguo was changed from county into a city. The city governs 20 town-level entities in 486 km?, of which the centrally placed Yaocheng is the municipal seat. The Chinese playwright Guan Hanqing was born here.

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