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Santai County

Santai County

FieldValue
nameSantai County
native_name三台县
other_nameTongchuan, Tungchwan
postal_code_typePostal code
settlement_typeCounty
image_mapLocation of Santai within Sichuan (China).png
map_captionLocation of Santai County (red) within Mianyang City (yellow) and Sichuan
coordinates
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameChina
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1Sichuan
subdivision_type2Prefecture-level city
subdivision_name2Mianyang
seat_typeCounty seat
area_total_km22660.58
population_as_of2020 census
population_density_km2auto
population_total955800
timezoneChina Standard
utc_offset+8
population_footnotes

Santai County (; Sichuanese romanization: San-t῾ai Shien; formerly known as Tungchwanfu, Sichuanese romanization: Tongchuanfu) is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Mianyang, in the northeast of Sichuan Province of China. It has an area of 2660.58 km2. According to the 2020 census, its population stands at 955,800.At the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, the resident population is 944,000, the urbanization rate is 34.14%, the urban population is 322,300, and the registered population is 1,334,500.

Administrative divisions

Santai County comprises 31 towns and 2 townships: ;towns:

  • Tongchuan 潼川镇
  • Tashan 塔山镇
  • Longshu 龙树镇
  • Shi'an 石安镇
  • Fushun 富顺镇
  • Sanyuan 三元镇
  • Qiulin 秋林镇
  • Xinde 新德镇
  • Xinsheng 新生镇
  • Luban 鲁班镇
  • Jingfu 景福镇
  • Zihe 紫河镇
  • Guanqiao 观桥镇
  • Qijiang 郪江镇
  • Zhongxin 中新镇
  • Gujing 古井镇
  • Xiping 西平镇
  • Badong 八洞镇
  • Le'an 乐安镇
  • Jianping 建平镇
  • Zhongtai 中太镇
  • Jinshi 金石镇
  • Xinlu 新鲁镇
  • Liuying 刘营镇
  • Lingxing 灵兴镇
  • Luxi 芦溪镇
  • Lixin 立新镇
  • Yongming 永明镇
  • Jianzhong 建中镇
  • Laoma 老马镇
  • Beiba 北坝镇 ;townships:
  • Zhongxiao 忠孝乡
  • Duanshi 断石乡

Quaker mission

Main article: Quakerism in Sichuan

Tungchwan Meeting House]] circa 1905

During the late 19th and first half of 20th century, Tungchwan was one of the mission centres of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association (FFMA), being the largest mission branch of FFMA's Northern District. Quaker-affiliated hospital, meeting house, boys' school and girls' boarding school were built during this period. The British political economist and missionary Audrey Donnithorne was born at a Quaker hospital in Santai.

Climate

| Jan record high C = 19.9 | Jan record low C = -4.6 | Feb record high C = 24.2 | Feb record low C = -3.0 | Mar record high C = 31.4 | Mar record low C = -2.6 | Apr record high C = 34.4 | Apr record low C = 4.5 | May record high C = 36.8 | May record low C = 7.4 | Jun record high C = 37.3 | Jun record low C = 13.4 | Jul record high C = 40.6 | Jul record low C = 17.5 | Aug record high C = 41.2 | Aug record low C = 16.6 | Sep record high C = 37.7 | Sep record low C = 13.2 | Oct record high C = 31.8 | Oct record low C = 3.8 | Nov record high C = 25.5 | Nov record low C = 0.4 | Dec record high C = 19.3 | Dec record low C = -4.3 all-time extreme temperature{{cite web |access-date= 2024-11-20

References

References

  1. "绵阳市第七次全国人口普查主要数据情况_绵阳市人民政府".
  2. (May 8, 2025). "(绵阳市)三台县2024年国民经济和社会发展统计公报-红黑统计公报库".
  3. link. [[National Bureau of Statistics of China]]
  4. Du, Swun Deh. (1937). "Quakerism in West China". Bulletin of Friends Historical Association.
  5. (1905). "Life in West China: Described by Two Residents in the Province of Sz-chwan". Headley Brothers.
  6. Weigel, George. (12 June 2020). "Audrey Donnithorne: Woman of Valor".
  7. link. [[China Meteorological Administration]]
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