Huaihua
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Place details
- Locality
- 怀化市
- Region
- 湖南省
- Country
- 中国
- Population
- 552,622
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Huaihua
- Settlement.native_name
- 怀化市
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh-Hans
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.image_map
- Location of Huaihua Prefecture within Hunan (China).png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Huaihua City jurisdiction in Hunan
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- China Hunan
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of the city centre in Hunan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hunan
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
- Settlement.seat
- Hecheng District
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 27600
- Settlement.area_blank1_title
- Districts
- Settlement.area_blank1_km2
- 722.8
- Settlement.area_urban_km2
- 64.00
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- prefecture-level city
- Official name
- 怀化市
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Hunan
- Contains
- Hongjiang
- Population
- 4587594
- Area
- 27572.54
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.huaihua.gov.cn
- Image
- HuaiHua.JPG
- Dialing code
- 745
- Licence plate code
- 湘N
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- Commons category
- Huaihua
- postal code
- 418000
- topic's main category
- Category:Huaihua
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Huaihua
- P12749
- Bella Heathcote
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Travel guide
Understand
The prefecture encompasses several autonomous ethnic counties, towns and villages.
Major ethnic groups found here are the Dòng or Kam (侗族), Miáo or Hmong (苗族), Tǔjiā (土家族), and Yáo (瑶族).
It was long inhabited by these ethnic groups before the arrival of the Han Chinese more than a thousand years ago. They are known to be indigenous to these mountainous areas. They also inhabit neighboring Guizhou province.
Get around
The two train stations in the north and south of the city are connected via bus number 12 (~30 minutes).
See
Huaihua's central urban area has only a few low-key sights such as the Huaihua Museum. All the main attractions and ethnic towns are outside the main urban area and in other parts of the prefecture. Those places can be reached by bus and in some cases by train.
The airport is of some historic importance—back in World War II it was known as Chihkiang Airfield and used by the U.S. air force. Nowadays there's a museum about the airport's history. World War II general Su Yu (粟裕) was born in Huitong County, and it's possible to visit historic sites related to his life.
Eat
Pao Cai (泡菜) or pickled vegetables are found everywhere around the city. It's a must try if you are in this dusty city.
Go next
Fenghuang – well-preserved ancient town
Go east to Changsha, the provincial capital, west to Tongren (not to be confused with the one in Qinghai province) or Kaili in Guizhou province, south to Guangxi Province or northwest to Chongqing.
From Chongqing or Changsha there are fast trains all over China. A route popular with tourists is from Changsha to Guiyang and on to Kunming.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Administration
- Geography and economy
- Climate
- Government
- Transportation
- Notable people
- References
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Huaihua () is a prefecture-level city in western Hunan province, China. It is known as the "Western Gate" of Hunan and is the largest prefecture-level city by area in the province. It covers and is bordered by Xiangxi to the northwest, Zhangjiajie and Changde to the north, Yiyang, Loudi and Shaoyang to the east, Guilin and Liuzhou of Guangxi to the south, and Qiandongnan and Tongren of Guizhou to the southwest. It has a population of 4,741,948 (2010 census), accounting for 7.22% of the provincial population. According to the 2010 Census, 2,909,574 people, or 61.4% of the population, are Han Chinese. Minorities constitute 38.6% of the population, with 1,832,289 people. The Dong, Miao, Tujia, Yao and Bai are major native minority groups. Huaihua is the central region of the Dong ethnic population, home to nearly 28.35% of the Chinese Dong ethnic group.
Huaihua is located in the center of the border area of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. It is at the core intersection of a cross on the map of China and is known as the "Gateway to Guizhou and Yunnan" and the "Throat of the Whole Chu".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huaihua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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