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Beiye Township

township in Hebei, People's Republic of China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4881508 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beiye (Chinese: 北冶; pinyin: Běiyě) is a township of Pingshan County in the Taihang Mountains of southwestern Hebei province, China, located around 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the border with Shanxi and 15 km (9.3 mi) west of the county seat. As of 2011, it had 39 villages under its administration.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Beiye, 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 in Hebei, People's Republic of China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4881508. Authority coordinates are 38.251, 113.806. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beiye 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.