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Xuanhua

district, China
Also known as: Hsüan-hua
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Xuanhua, former city, northwestern Hebei sheng (province), China. In 1963 it was incorporated into Kalgan (Zhangjiakou), becoming a district of that city. Xuanhua district is situated some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of central Kalgan, on the upper course of the Yang River. In former times the settlement was in a border district, just inside the Great Wall, between the Inner Mongolian pasturelands and the area of Chinese settlement. Under both the Han (206 bce–220...

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