Huanggang
Sign in to saveHuanggang is a prefecture-level city in easternmost Hubei Province, China. It is situated to the north of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and is bounded in the north by the Dabie Mountains and is named after Mount Huanggang. It borders Henan in the north, Anhui in the east and Jiangxi in the south.
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Huanggang is a prefecture-level city in Hubei, China, situated near the Yangtze River. The city’s official name is 黄冈市, and it shares a border with Xinyang. It contains the administrative entities of Huangzhou District, Tuanfeng County, Hong'an County, and Luotian County. Huanggang is twinned with Qiqihar and operates in the UTC+08:00 time zone.
The city has an area of 17,457.2 square kilometers and a population of 6,333,000. Its postal code is 438000, and the local dialing code is 713. The elevation of the city is approximately 45 to 46 meters.
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Place details
- Locality
- 黄州区
- Region
- 湖北省
- Country
- 中国
- Population
- 366,769
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Huanggang
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.other_name
- Hwangkang
- Settlement.native_name
- 黄冈市
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- zh-Hans
- Settlement.image_caption
- Clockwise: Huanggang skyline, Li Siguang Memorial Museum, Shopping street in Huangzhou, Mount Tashan near Fengshan.
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Local Dialect
- Settlement.blank_info_sec1
- Lower Yangtze Mandarin
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- Location of Huanggang Prefecture within Hubei (China).png
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- Location of Huanggang City jurisdiction in Hubei
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- Hubei#China
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- Location of downtown Huanggang in Hubei
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- left
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hubei
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 黄冈市
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Hubei
- Contains
- Wuxue
- Population
- 5882719
- Area
- 17457.2
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Body of water
- Yangtze
- Shares border with
- Xinyang
- Official website
- wlt.hubei.gov.cn/bmdt/ztzl/zshb/201912/t20191226_1799484.shtml
- Image
- Huanggangshi.jpg
- Dialing code
- 713
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- Commons category
- Huanggang, Hubei
- topic's main category
- Category:Huanggang
- postal code
- 438000
- twinned administrative body
- Qiqihar
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Huanggang
- hashtag
- Huanggang
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Travel guide
Understand
As of 2022, Huanggang City has a permanent population of 5,790,200.
Connect
There are several leisure areas where you can rest near the Huanggang high-speed rail station： Emergency numbers: 110 - Police, 119 - Fire, 120 - First aid, 122 - Traffic accidents
Huanggang Railway Station telephone number：0713-12306
Go next
Wuhan：The distance from Huanggang to Wuhan is 75 km, which takes about 1.2 hours by car and about 49 minutes by high-speed rail. Wuhan is the central city of Hubei with a long history and is well worth a visit. Chibi
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Administration
- Climate
- Cultural heritage
- Education
- Economy
- Transportation
- Bridges
- Rail
- Famous people
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- Bibliography
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Huanggang is a prefecture-level city in easternmost Hubei Province, China. It is situated to the north of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and is bounded in the north by the Dabie Mountains and is named after Mount Huanggang. It borders Henan in the north, Anhui in the east and Jiangxi in the south.
The city's administrative area covers and the total population was 5,882,719 as of the 2020 census whom 456,862 resided in the Huangzhou urban district, making it the second most populous city in the province by administrative population, after Wuhan, the provincial capital. the Ezhou – Huanggang built-up (or metro) area was home to 1,152,559 inhabitants comprising (Echeng district and Huangzhou district of Huanggang), and many of its residents work in Wuhan. In 2007, the city is named China's top ten livable cities by Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which was released at the 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Forum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huanggang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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