Fenyang (simplified Chinese: 汾阳市; traditional Chinese: 汾陽市; pinyin: Fényáng Shì), formerly as Fenyang County (汾阳县) before 1996, is a county-level city under the administration of Lüliang prefecture-level city, in Shanxi Province, China.

Fenyang 汾阳市
County-level city
Temple of Guan Yu
Fenyang in Lüliang
Fenyang Location in Shanxi
Coordinates: 37°15′42″N 111°46′12″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Shanxi
Prefecture-level city	Lüliang
Area [1]
• County-level city	1,175.3 km2 (453.8 sq mi)
• Urban	20.00 km2 (7.72 sq mi)
Population  (2017)
• County-level city	446,000
• Density	380/km2 (980/sq mi)
• Urban [1]	121,600
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Fenyang is located in the wide valley of the Fen River, some 20-plus kilometers west of the actual river.

Fenyang was the birthplace of Jia Zhangke who filmed 1997 Xiao Wu there. Platform is set from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s in and around Fenyang. Subsequently, Mountains May Depart features scenes set in Fenyang in 1999 and 2014. Fengyang is also the birthplace of Guo Qinglan, (郭庆兰; Guō Qìnglán, the widow of Dwarkanath Kotnis.

Fenyang has a strong reputation within Shanxi for the production of Fenjiu (汾酒;; fénjiǔ), a type of Baijiu known for its superior flavor.

Transportation

• G20 Qingdao–Yinchuan Expressway
• Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway[2]

External links

• Fenyang government website (in Chinese)

Notes

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