Southern Shaanxi · Prefecture-level city

Ankang安康市

Ankang occupies the Han River valley between the Qinling and Ba Mountains, where steep valleys receive abundant rain. County towns are mostly built along the rivers.

English summary

Region: Southern Shaanxi
Divisions: 10
Centre point: 32.7536°N · 108.9319°E
Measured area: 23,433 km²
East–west span: 204.2 km
North–south span: 237.6 km

This is an English summary. The full entry is in Chinese. Read the full entry in Chinese

At a glance

Ankang governs 10 county-level divisions: 1 district, 8 counties and 1 county-level city.

Together they measure about 23,433 km², 11.4% of the province's measured area, ranking 4 of the ten cities by measured area.

The city runs about 204.2 km east to west and 237.6 km north to south, and its area-weighted centre sits near 32.7536°N · 108.9319°E.

Every figure here is aggregated from the 107 county pages on this site with the same boundary measurements. None of it is taken from an official statistical yearbook.

The divisions

Listed by administrative code — the same order as the Chinese edition. Each name opens its English county page.

Largest by measured area: Ningshan County. Smallest by measured area: Hanyin County.

Four seasons

One original illustration drawn four ways, in this city's palette. The vectors open at full size; the raster files are 1280×720 WebP.

Ankang in Spring, original illustration — **Spring** · Rapeseed runs from the valley floors up to the foot of the slopes, tea buds open around Qingming, and the rivers rise quickly after rain. · Vector version

Ankang in Summer, original illustration — **Summer** · The paddies are flooded, cloud rises out of the mountains most afternoons, and the valleys are muggy while higher ground stays cool. · Vector version

Ankang in Autumn, original illustration — **Autumn** · Rice, citrus and kiwifruit ripen in sequence; the hills stay green while the water clears. · Vector version

Ankang in Winter, original illustration — **Winter** · Damp and cold, often foggy. Evergreens hold the green, and thin snow occasionally settles in the valleys. · Vector version

These are editorial illustrations, not photographs and not maps: they suggest the season and the landscape, and carry no survey data.

Where it sits

Location of Ankang in Shaanxi: its 10 divisions highlighted on the provincial outline — Shaanxi · this city's divisions highlighted · figure labels in Chinese · Vector version

The locator draws all 107 divisions of the province and shades the ones belonging to this city, so the city reads as a piece of the whole rather than as a standalone shape.

Seal-style graphic for Ankang — City seal · graphic device, not an official emblem

Borders inside and outside the city

Under this site's adjacency test, the 10 divisions of this city share 15 borders with one another, and 9 cross-city borders connect them to 3 other cities.

Borders between divisions: 15; Pairs of divisions of this city that share a boundary.
Neighbouring cities: 3; Xi'an, Hanzhong and Shangluo
Cross-city borders: 9; Borders where the other side belongs to a different city.

Source and confidence

Names, types and parent city: Not individually checked
Area, spans, centre and borders: Measured
Summary, seasonal notes, illustrations and palette: Editorial work

Boundary, area and centre: DataV.GeoAtlas, measured on simplified geometry. Not an official statistic.

Name, type and parent city: DataV.GeoAtlas attributes, not individually checked.

Updated 2026-11-03

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