Baode County belongs to Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province. Xinzhou area, located in the northwest of Shanxi Province, is located in the western block of the northern section of Luliang Mountain, on the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau, with a slope-like terrain. Great Shandong is adjacent to kelan county, facing Fugu County of Shaanxi Province across the Yellow River in the west, Hequ County in the north and Xingxian County in the south. The county covers an area of 997.4 square kilometers, with a longitudinal length of about 45 kilometers from north to south and a width of about 2 1.7 kilometers from east to west.

The origin of the province

As we all know, the division of provincial system in China originated from the provincial system in Yuan Dynasty, which is the abbreviation of provincial book province. Zhongshu Province, Shangshu Province and Menxia Province are collectively called the three provinces. The system of three provinces and six departments was founded in Sui Dynasty and flourished in Tang Dynasty, which is the famous system of three provinces and six departments. The provincial system has been inherited by the Ming and Qing Dynasties since the Yuan Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty did not use the name of "province" initiated by the Yuan Dynasty, it was renamed as "official ministers and envoys", but the provinces delineated by the Yuan Dynasty remained basically unchanged and were still customarily called "provinces".