Huanggang
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.
Huanggang
黄冈市 Hwangkang | |
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Prefecture-level city | |
Clockwise: Huanggang skyline, Li Siguang Memorial Museum, Shopping street in Huangzhou, Mount Tashan near Fengshan. | |
Location of Huanggang City jurisdiction in Hubei | |
Huanggang Location of downtown Huanggang in Hubei Huanggang Huanggang (China) | |
| Coordinates (Huanggang municipal government): 30°27′13″N 114°52′21″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hubei |
| Municipal seat | Huangzhou District |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 17,446.63 km2 (6,736.18 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 363.23 km2 (140.24 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 963.44 km2 (371.99 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 5,882,719 |
| • Density | 340/km2 (870/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 456,862 |
| • Urban density | 1,300/km2 (3,300/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,152,559 |
| • Metro density | 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 158.9 billion US$ 25.5 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 25,319 US$ 4,065 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-HB-11 |
| Local Dialect | Lower Yangtze Mandarin |
| Website | 黄冈市政府门户网站 (Huanggang City Government Web Portal) (in Chinese) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 黄冈 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 黃岡 | ||||||||||
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The city's administrative area covers 17,453 square kilometers (6,739 sq mi) 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.