Huanren Manchu Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 桓仁满族自治县; traditional Chinese: 桓仁滿族自治縣; pinyin: Huánrén Mǎnzú Zìzhì Xìan, Manchu: ᡥᡠᠸᠠᠨᡵᡝᠨ ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ ᠪᡝᠶᡝ ᡩᠠᠰᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᠰᡳᠶᠠᠨ; Möllendorff: huwanren manju beye dasangga siyan), formerly Huairen County (Chinese: 懷仁縣), is a county under the administration of Benxi City, in eastern Liaoning province, China, bordering Jilin to the east. It is also one of 11 Manchu autonomous counties and one of 117 autonomous counties nationally. As a county, Huanren was established in 1877. It was reorganised as an autonomous county in 1989 with approval of the State Council. The county covers 3,362 square kilometres (1,298 sq mi) and has 293,505 population (2000 census), and Huanren Town is its seat.
Huanren County is divided into one subdistrict, eight towns and three townships and one ethnic township.[2] The main nationalities in this county are Manchu, Han, Hui and Korean people.
Huanren has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen Dwa) with hot and humid summers and rather long, cold, and very dry winters. More than two-thirds of the annual rainfall occurs from June thru August. Monthly 24-hour average temperatures range from −12.4 °C (9.7 °F) in January to 23.0 °C (73.4 °F) in July, for an annual average of 6.93 °C (44.5 °F).
Wunu Mountain City, a Goguryeo site found in this county, is part of the combined UNESCO World Heritage Site that also includes sites in Ji'an, Jilin.
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