Hanchuan () is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

in east-central

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province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of

Xiaogan Xiaogan () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hubei province, People's Republic of China, some northwest of the provincial capital of Wuhan. According to the 2020 census, its population totaled 4,270,371, of whom 988,479 lived in the buil ...

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. The city's urban area is located on the left bank of the Han River a few tens of kilometres upstream from

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. However, the county-level city as an administrative unit also includes some land on the right bank of the river as well.

Transport

The city has been served by the

Hanchuan railway station Hanchuan railway station is a railway station located in Hanchuan, Xiaogan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Wuhan–Yichang railway Wuhan–Yichang railway, or Hanyi railway (), is a long higher-speed railway between Han ...

on the

Wuhan–Yichang railway Wuhan–Yichang railway, or Hanyi railway (), is a long higher-speed railway between Hankou (in Wuhan) and Yichang, in Hubei province, China. The railway forms a section of the Huhanrong passenger-dedicated line from Shanghai to Wuhan to Ch ...

Sister city

Hanchuan is a sister city of

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, United States.

Administrative divisions

Two subdistricts:http://cn.bing.com/maps Hanchuan Makou Town Maiwang Town Fenshui Town Huilong Town Xinyan Town Dongzhong icTown Mahe Town Miaotou Town Xijiang Town Nanhe Town Ma'an Town Litan Town Hanji Town * Xiannüshan Subdistrict () and Diaodong Subdistrict () Fourteen towns: * Makou (), Maiwang (), Chenghuang (), Fenshui (), Chenhu (), Tian'erhe (), Huilong (), Xinyan (), Tongzhong (/), Mahe (), Liujiage (), Xinhe (), Miaotou (), Yanglingou () Six townships: * Xijiang Township (), Wantan Township (), Nanhe Township (), Ma'an Township (), Litan Township (), Hanji Township () Five other areas: *Hanchuan Economic and Technological Development Zone (), Diaocha Lake Breeding Farm (), Huayan Farm (), Sanxingyuan Farm (), Zhongzhou Farm ()

Climate

References

County-level divisions of Hubei Wuhan urban agglomeration Xiaogan {{Hubei-geo-stub