Guanzhong · Prefecture-level city

Tongchuan铜川市

Tongchuan sits between the Weibei tablelands and the eastern foothills of the Ziwuling range, with the Qishui River running through it. Coal and ceramics have shaped its modern history.

English summary

Region: Guanzhong
Divisions: 4
Centre point: 35.1954°N · 109.0383°E
Measured area: 3,888 km²
East–west span: 82.8 km
North–south span: 86.3 km

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At a glance

Tongchuan governs 4 county-level divisions: 3 districts and 1 county.

Together they measure about 3,888 km², 1.9% of the province's measured area, ranking 10 of the ten cities by measured area.

The city runs about 82.8 km east to west and 86.3 km north to south, and its area-weighted centre sits near 35.1954°N · 109.0383°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: Yaozhou District. Smallest by measured area: Wangyi District.

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.

Tongchuan in Spring, original illustration — **Spring** · The wheat greens up, then rapeseed and apricot blossom follow. The wind stays raw and the days still swing between warm and cold. · Vector version

Tongchuan in Summer, original illustration — **Summer** · The wheat is cut in June and the maize pushes up behind it. In a dry spell, canal water and wells decide how green the fields look. · Vector version

Tongchuan in Autumn, original illustration — **Autumn** · Maize, apples and pomegranates ripen in turn and the tablelands begin to turn yellow; each autumn rain deepens the colour of the hills. · Vector version

Tongchuan in Winter, original illustration — **Winter** · The fields rest and village outlines sharpen. Fog is common, and distant hills often reduce to a pale line. · Vector version

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

Field photographs

3 of this city's 4 county-level divisions have a field photograph on the site — one each, all from Wikimedia Commons. Each picture opens the English county page for that division.

Photograph coverage of Tongchuan: 3 of 4 divisions have one, numbered to match the list beside the map — Photograph coverage · figure labels in Chinese · Vector version

Field photograph taken in Wangyi District, Shaanxi — Wangyi District · 薄兰安 · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Yintai District, Shaanxi — Yintai District · dayu490301 · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Yijun County, Shaanxi — Yijun County · Liuxingy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

These are third-party photographs used under the licences named on each one, not maps and not this site's own illustrations; the numbered dots mark a measured centre point inside each division, not the place the camera stood.

Where it sits

Location of Tongchuan in Shaanxi: its 4 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 Tongchuan — City seal · graphic device, not an official emblem

Borders inside and outside the city

Under this site's adjacency test, the 4 divisions of this city share 4 borders with one another, and 8 cross-city borders connect them to 3 other cities.

Borders between divisions: 4; Pairs of divisions of this city that share a boundary.
Neighbouring cities: 3; Xianyang, Weinan and Yan'an
Cross-city borders: 8; 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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