Jian'ou

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Jian'ou 建瓯市 Kienow
County-level city
Jian'ou Railway Station
Nickname(s):  芝城, Root Craft City of China[citation needed]
Location of Jian'ou City within Nanping City
Jian'ou Location in Fujian
Coordinates: 27°02′N 118°19′E / 27.033°N 118.317°E / 27.033; 118.317
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Fujian
Prefecture-level city	Nanping
Government
• CPC City Committee Secretary	Qiu Yi
Population
• Total	452,174
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Local dialect	Northern Min: Jian'ou dialect
Website	www.jianou.gov.cn
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	建瓯
Traditional Chinese	建甌
Postal	Kienou
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiàn'ōu Wade–Giles Chien⁴-ou¹ Northern Min Jian'ou Romanized Gṳ̿ing-é
Jianning
Simplified Chinese	建宁府
Traditional Chinese	建寧府
Literal meaning	Prefecture of Establishing Peace and/or Tranquility
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiànníngfǔ Wade–Giles Chien-ning Fu

Jian'ou is a county-level city in Nanping in northern Fujian province, China. Under the name Jianning (Kienning), it was formerly the seat of its own prefecture and was the namesake of its province.

Jian'ou is within a major bamboo and rice-growing area on Jianxi Brook, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south from Jianyang.

The Jian'ou dialect, a dialect of Northern Min, is spoken in Jian'ou.