Jianning County lies in the municipal region

Prefecture-level city

A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

 of Sanming (三明)

Sanming

Sanming ) is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders Nanping City to the north, Fuzhou City to the east, Quanzhou City to the southeast, Longyan City to the south, and the province of Jiangxi to the west...

, Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

. Jianning is rather remote, its county-town Suicheng (濉城) serviced only by a trivia of provincially-maintained roads, namely -

1. east to Taining (泰宁)

Taining County

Taining County is a county in Sanming City, Fujian Province of China.Area: 1535 km2.Population: 130,000.Postal Code: 354400.The county government is located in Shancheng town.-External links:*...

 county-town

2. south to Ninghua (宁化)

Ninghua County

Ninghua is a county in Sanming municipality in Fujian province, China.Ninghua is located at the west of Sanming, next to Jiangxi Province. Shibi of Ninghua is well known as the Cradle of the Hakka...

 county-town, and

3. west to the watershed/provincial border, whence north to Nanfeng (南丰)

Nanfeng County

Nanfeng County is a county in Fuzhou, Jiangxi province in China.-External links:*...

 county town, in the municipal region of Fuzhou (抚州)

Fuzhou, Jiangxi

Fuzhou is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China.It is located to the south of the provincial capital Nanchang. Its total area is 18,800 km². Its population is 3,700,000 people...

, JX

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

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Towns (镇, zhen)

Other than the county seat Suicheng, Jianning has only three towns -

• Lixin (里心)
• Xikou (溪口)
• Junkou (均口)

Townships (乡, xiang)

There are six townships -

• Xiyuan (溪源)
• Huangfang (黄坊)
• Huangbu (黄埠)
• Kefang (客坊)
• Yijia (伊家)
• Jinxi (金溪)