As of 2016, Xinzhou City has 1 district (Xinfu District), 1 county-level city (Yuanping City), and 12 counties (Dai County, Fanzhi County, Jingle County, Dingxiang County, Wutai County, Shenchi County, Wuchai County, Bali County, Yiguan County, Hequ County, Baode County, and Ningwu County).
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Xinzhou City, belonging to Shanxi Province, is known as "Xiuyong" in ancient times, shortened to "Xin", and nicknamed "Xin". Located in the north-central Shanxi Province, north of the Great Wall and Datong, Shuozhou as a neighbor, west of the Yellow River and Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, east of Taihang and Hebei border, south of the screen Shiling Pass and Taiyuan, Yangquan, Lvliang adjoining, with a total area of 25.15 million square kilometers.
"Xinzhou" name from: according to legend, Han Gaozu north against the Xiongnu, soldiers trapped Pingcheng (now Datong), out of the siege when the army rutted to the south, to the Xinkou party to get rid of the pursuers. Gaozu broke the sadness and smile, six troops were happy to return, because "Xin" through the "Xin", the name of Xinzhou thus born.
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