Ningqiang County is a county in the southwesternmost corner of the Hanzhong

Hanzhong

Hanzhong is a municipality in southwest Shaanxi Province, China, occupying a historically significant valley in the mountains between the Xi'an area, home to many Chinese capitals, and the fertile but isolated Sichuan Basin...

 municipal region, Shaanxi

Shaanxi

' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...

, bordering both Sichuan

Sichuan

' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...

 and Gansu

Gansu

' is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.It lies between the Tibetan and Huangtu plateaus, and borders Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south, and Shaanxi to the east...

.

Administration

The county executive, legislature and judiciary

Basic people's court

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 are in Hanyuan Town (汉源镇; though like many shiretowns it is conventionally also known as Chengguan, 城关镇), together with the CPC

Communist Party of China

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 and PSB

Public Security Bureau

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 branches.

Towns

the County oversees eleven other towns -

• Gaozhaizi (高寨子镇)
• DaAn (大安镇)
• Daijiaba (代家坝镇)
• Yangpingguan (阳平关镇)
• Yanzibian (燕子砭镇)
• Guangping (广坪镇)
• Qingmuchuan (青木川镇)
• Maobahe (毛坝河镇)
• Tiesuoguan (铁锁关镇)
• Hujiaba (胡家坝镇)
• Bashan (巴山镇)

Townships

• 舒家坝乡
• 庙坝乡
• 南屏乡
• 宽川乡
• 巩家河乡
• 东皇沟乡
• 曾家河乡
• 双河乡
• 竹坝河乡
• 太阳岭乡
• 苍社乡
• 巨亭乡
• 安乐河乡
• 八海乡
• 关口坝乡
• 禅家岩乡
• 黄坝驿乡
• 二郎坝乡
• 滴水铺乡
• 水田坪乡
• 茅坪沟乡