Alongshan town explained

Alongshan
Official Name:Alongshan town
Native Name:阿龙山镇
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Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:China
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Subdivision Type2:Province-level city
Subdivision Name2:Hulunbuir
Subdivision Type3:Prefecture-level city
Subdivision Name3:Genhe

Alongshan is a town in Inner Mongolia, China. It is administrated by the county-level city of Genhe under the prefecture-level city of Hulunbuir.[1] The index patient of the tick-borne Alongshan virus came from the town of Alongshan and presented to a county hospital in Hulunbuir. This led the newly-discovered virus to be named after the town.[2]

Alongshan is located on the southwestern part of the Aokeli man-made mountain .

Administrative divisions

Alongshan town has three subdivisions, all of which are residential communities : Zhenxi, Zhenbei, and Zhendong .[3] The names mean "west of town", "north of town", and "east of town" respectively.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023年统计用区划代码 . 2024-10-08 . National Bureau of Statistics of China.
  2. Wang . Ze-Dong . Wang . Bo . Wei . Feng . Han . Shu-Zheng . Zhang . Li . Yang . Zheng-Tao . Yan . Yan . Lv . Xiao-Long . Li . Liang . Wang . Shu-Chao . Song . Ming-Xin . Zhang . Hao-Ji . Huang . Shu-Jian . Chen . Jidang . Huang . Fu-Qiang . 2019-05-30 . A New Segmented Virus Associated with Human Febrile Illness in China . New England Journal of Medicine . en . 380 . 22 . 2116–2125 . 10.1056/NEJMoa1805068 . 0028-4793 . 31141633.
  3. Web site: 2023年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码 . 2024-10-08 . National Bureau of Statistics of China.