Xixia County is a county of Nanyang, Henan

Nanyang, Henan

Nanyang is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Henan province, People's Republic of China. The city with the largest administrative area in Henan, Nanyang borders Xinyang to the southeast, Zhumadian to the east, Pingdingshan to the northeast, Luoyang to the north, Sanmenxia to the...

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, has an area of 3,452 square kilometers and a population of 420,000 as of 2002.

Controversy

In September 2010, the director of the Xixia Weather Bureau, Yu Xiangjie (禹 相 杰), ran over three pedestrians who were killed instantly. Sentenced to pay 630,000 yuan in damages to the families, he spent the money from the account of the Weather Bureau.

Reference: http://news.sina.com.cn/s/2010-11-15/051821471288.shtml

Transportation

• Hushan Expressway
• China National Highway 209
  China National Highway 209
  China National Highway 209 runs from Huhhot, Inner Mongolia to Beihai, Guangxi province. It is3,435 kilometres in length and runs south from Huhhot towards Shanxi province, Henan province, Hubei province, Hunan province, and ends in Guangxi province.Despite the "National Highway" designation, G209...
  
  
• China National Highway 311
  China National Highway 311
  China National Highway 311 runs west from Xuzhou, Jiangsu towards Anhui province, and ends in Xixia County, Henan. It is 748 kilometres in length.- Route and distance:...
  
  
• China National Highway 312
  China National Highway 312
  China National Highway 312 , also referred to as Route 312 or The Mother Road, is an important highway that runs east-west across the breadth of People's Republic of China. It begins at the port city Shanghai and ends at Khorgas in the Ili River valley, on the border with Kazakhstan. In total it...
  
  
• Henan Provincial Highway 335
• Yunxi Railway
• Ningxi Railway