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Baiqi Township

township of the People's Republic of China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ13902468 ↗
Source-derived summary

Baiqi Township (Chinese: 白旗乡; pinyin: Báiqí Xiāng) is a rural township located in Chongli District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China. According to the 2010 census, Baiqi Township had a population of 4,601, including 2,374 males and 2,227 females. The population was distributed as follows: 533 people aged under 14, 3,379 people aged between 15 and 64, and 689 people aged over 65.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Baiqi Township” as township of the People's Republic of China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Baiqi, Township and township can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as township of the People's Republic of China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13902468. Authority coordinates are 41.054, 115.325. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Baiqi Township” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.