Where are the only three counties and cities in China named "Guo"?

There are now only 3 counties named "Guo" in China. Anguo City, Ningguo City and Xingguo County in Hebei Province. The first one is Anguo City, which is located in the central region of Hebei Province, and is a county-level city on behalf of Baoding City. According to historical records, "Anguo" means to settle the country in peace, and this name was proposed by Liu Banggai, the Gaozu of Han Dynasty. Liu Bang at that time trusted one of the founding generals at that time, named Wang Ling, who was later appointed as the candidate of Anguo.

After his death, his title was still inherited by his descendants and passed down to his great-grandson, but was not inherited because of the incident of the "strong wine and gold to take the title". Anguo used to be called "Qizhou", after which Qizhou was renamed Qixian. It was later restored to Anguo County. In 1991, it became Anguo City. Anguo City is a famous market for traditional Chinese medicine from the Ming and Qing dynasties, known as the "world's first medicine market" . The origin of this name has a lot to do with the local "Medicine King Temple".

The Han Guangdi had a powerful general named Pi Tong, Pi Tong he was proficient in medicine, while clean government, so very much loved by the people at that time, and the Qin King Zhao Tingmei suffered from an intractable disease, in Pi Tong's treatment was cured, in order to thank him for his medical expertise, he set up a temple, which is the "Temple of the King of Medicine".

The second city of Ningguo is a county-level city in Anhui Province. The name means "First of a hundred things, all the countries Xianning", which implies that the country is peaceful and the country is prosperous, and that there will be long-term peace. Ningguo City has a history of more than 1,800 years. Ningguo City is also known as the "comprehensive power of the top 100 counties", the heyday of talent, but for some reason later, which is famous for the history of celebrities is not much.

The third Xingguo County, Xingguo County is the same county-level administrative unit. Xingguo County can be traced back to the earliest Three Kingdoms period, after the time inside also experienced a number of name changes, to the Northern Song Dynasty, because of its annual number for the "county", it became today's Xingguo County. Xingguo County is full of soldiers is the place, so in the national period many famous generals are the hometown are Xingguo County. So Xingguo County is also known as the "Red Army County".