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Kandan Subdistrict

subdistrict in Fengtai, Beijing

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ107352058 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kandan Subdistrict (Chinese: 看丹街道; pinyin: Kàndān Jiēdào) is a subdistrict located in the southern side of Fengtai District, Beijing, China. It shares border with Wulidian and Fengtai Subdistricts to the north, Xincun and Yuquanying Subdistricts to the east, Huaxiang Subdistrict to the southeast, and Wanping Subdistrict to the west.

This region was recorded in Wanshu Zaji (Chinese: 《宛署杂记》) as "Kandankou". The subdistrict itself was created in 2021.

Editorial summary

“Kandan Subdistrict” enters the record as subdistrict in Fengtai, Beijing. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kandan, Subdistrict and subdistrict can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kandan, Subdistrict and subdistrict.
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Why this record matters

“Kandan Subdistrict” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kandan, Subdistrict and subdistrict provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107352058. Authority coordinates are 39.829, 116.273. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Kandan Subdistrict primary sources, Kandan Subdistrict archive and Kandan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kandan Subdistrict” 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.