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Kandan station

Beijing Subway station in Fengtai, Beijing

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ78872939 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kandan station (Chinese: 看丹站; pinyin: Kāndān zhàn) is a station on Line 16 of the Beijing Subway. The station opened on 31 December 2022.

Station layout

The station has an underground island platform. There are 3 exits, lettered A, B and C. Exit B is accessible via an elevator.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kandan station” as beijing Subway station in Fengtai, Beijing. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kandan, station and Beijing can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as beijing Subway station in Fengtai, Beijing. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q78872939. Authority coordinates are 39.834, 116.267. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kandan station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kandan station primary sources, Kandan station archive and Kandan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kandan station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kandan station” 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.