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Dapingtai Township

rural Township in Hebei, People's Republic of China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ10935279 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dapingtai Township (Chinese: 大平台乡; pinyin: Dàpíngtái Xiāng) is a rural township located in Guangzong County, Xingtai, Hebei, China. According to the 2010 census, Dapingtai Township had a population of 40,521, including 20,295 males and 20,226 females. The population was distributed as follows: 8,027 people aged under 14, 29,328 people aged between 15 and 64, and 3,166 people aged over 65.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dapingtai Township” as rural Township in Hebei, People's Republic of China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dapingtai, Township and rural.

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—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dapingtai, Township and rural providing the first useful test.
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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 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10935279. Authority coordinates are 37.103, 115.123. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dapingtai 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.