| Nanbu County | |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Pushpin Map: | China Sichuan |
| Pushpin Label: | Nanbu |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the seat in Sichuan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Sichuan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
| Subdivision Name2: | Nanchong |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Nanlong |
| Area Total Km2: | 2305 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | China Standard |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
Nanbu County is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Nanchong city.
In 1960, local government officials tasked with cleaning up Qing-dynasty archives found 4000 Qing-era official documents in a watchtower of the county's public security bureau, covering political, economic, military, cultural, educational, judicial, religious, and diplomatic records of the years 1656 to 1911.[1] It is one of the largest surviving collections of Qing-era judicial material.[2] The archives are nowadays stored by the Nanchong Municipal Bureau of Archives.[3]
Nanbu County comprises 4 subdistricts, 33 towns and 5 townships:[4]