Huarong District () is a district of the city of

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Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The p ...

province, People's Republic of China. The district is named after Huarong Town, the name of which is of disputed origin. Huarong () is mentioned in the

Romance of the Three Kingdoms ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'' () is a 14th-century historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong. It is set in the turbulent years towards the end of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history, starting in 184 AD ...

. Huarong is mostly rural. It is mostly located on the right (southern) bank of the

Yangtze The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...

River, between Ezhou's main urban area (

Echeng District Echeng District () is one of the three administrative districts into which the prefecture-level city of Ezhou, China's Hubei province, is divided. The district is quite small, and includes Ezhou's main urban area (i.e., in informal terms, Ezhou "c ...

) and

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in the south and Hongshan District and

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of the city of

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in the west. Huarong District faces Xinzhou District and Tuanfeng County across the Yangtze to the north, and

Huangzhou District Huangzhou District is an urban district of Huanggang, Hubei province, China. History In 845 BC Marquis Wen 文侯 Huang Meng 黃孟 (aka Huang Zhang 黃璋) moved the capital of the State of Huang from Yicheng to Huangchuan (present-day Huang ...

to the east. The district administers islands in the Yangtze including part of Sand Islet () near Echeng District and part of People's Islet () near Tuanfeng County.

Geography

Administrative divisions

As of 2017, Huarong District administered three towns and two townships:

Transportation

Huarong is served by the

Wuhan–Jiujiang Railway The Wuhan–Jiujiang railway or Wujiu railway (), is a double-track, electrified railroad in central China between Wuhan in Hubei Province and Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province. The line is long and follows the south bank of the Yangtze River from Wuc ...

and Wuhan–Jiujiang passenger railway.

Gallery

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References

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