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Dengfeng is a county-level city of Henan Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhengzhou. The name Dengfeng was bestowed upon it by Empress Wu Zetian of the Wu Zhou dynasty. Located in the central-west part of Henan Province, at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain, it borders the provincial capital Zhengzhou to the northeast and the ancient capital Luoyang to the northwest.
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Dengfeng has an area of 1,220 km2 (470 sq mi) and a population of 630,000. It occupies the southwestern corner of Zhengzhou and is its westernmost county-level division.
Dengfeng is located at the foot of the Mount Song, one of the most sacred mountains in China. The city is one of the most renowned spiritual centers of China, and is home to various religious institutions and famous temples such as the Taoist Zhongyue Temple, the Buddhist Shaolin Temple (a renowned center for martial arts), as well as the Confucian Songyang Academy and the Gaocheng Observatory, hence its poetic expression derived from Chinese literature as the spiritual "center of heaven and earth".Parts of the city were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010.
From the Wikipedia article Dengfeng, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Towns around Songyang
- Gongyi33 km N
- Yuzhou52 km SE
- Luoyang60 km NW
- Zhengzhou66 km NE
- Xiangcheng79 km SE
- Xixiang80 km N
- Jiyuan81 km NW
- Pingdingshan85 km S
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