Guzhang County () is a

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Hunan Province Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiang ...

, China. The county is the 2nd least populous administrative unit of the counties or county-level cities (after Shaoshan City) in the province, it is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. Located in the northwest of Hunan and in the east of Xiangxi Prefecture, the county is bordered to the north by

Yongshun County Yongshun County () is a county of Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. Located on the western part of Hunan and the northeastern Xiangxi, the county is bordered to the northeast by Sangzhi Cou ...

, to the east by Yuanling County, to the south by Luxi County and Jishou City, to the west by Baojing County. Guzhang County covers , as of 2015, It had a registered population of 143,182 and a resident population of 131,900.about the population of Guzhang County in 2015, according to the Statistical Communiqué of Guzhang County on the 2015 National Economic and Social Development - ()
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Ethnic groups

Guzhang County includes the following ethnic groups (Wu 2007, 2010). * Xiang (} * Miao (; ) **Shen Miao (; ): in Shanzhao () and Yezhu (). Also called "Gelao" (). Their language is also called Zhang ((). **Qian Miao (; ): in Morong () and Pingba ().

Geology

The

Guzhangian The Guzhangian is an uppermost stage of the Miaolingian Series of the Cambrian. It follows the Drumian Stage and precedes the Paibian Stage of the Furongian Series. The base is defined as the first appearance of the trilobite ''Lejopyge lae ...

Age of the

Cambrian The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million years ag ...

Period is named after Guzhang County. In particular, the Louyixi Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point is named after the

Louyixi Luoyixi Town () is a Town in Guzhang County of China's Hunan Province. It is located on a bay of the Fengtan Reservoir (formerly, a southern tributary of the You River). As of the census of 2010, it has a total population of 10,000. Hongshilin ...

Town in Guzhang County.

Climate

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County-level divisions of Hunan Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture {{Hunan-geo-stub