Honghu
Honghu (Chinese: 洪湖市; pinyin: Hónghú Shì) is a county-level city in the municipal region of Jingzhou, in the central south of Hubei province. The city lies on the northwest (left) bank of the Yangtze River, across from Hunan Province and Xianning, Hubei. It is named after the adjacent Hong Lake, which since ancient times has periodically flooded.
Honghu
洪湖市 | |
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Xintan, one of the towns of Honghu City, seen from a Yangtze levee | |
Honghu Location in Hubei | |
| Coordinates: 29°49′37″N 113°28′34″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hubei |
| Prefecture-level city | Jingzhou |
| Area | |
| • Urban | 41.40 km2 (15.98 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • County-level city | 819,446 |
| • Estimate (2017) | 923,000 |
| • Urban | 138,600 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
The traditional Chinese holiday, Dragon Boat Festival, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, features boat races which are run on Hong Lake.
By means of its famous lake, Honghu City produces forty kinds of fish and an abundance of plants, such as lotus, reed and a type of black algae.
As of 2000, Honghu City had a population of 335,618 or more people.
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