Wugang () 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 Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of

Shaoyang Shaoyang (), formerly named Baoqing (Paoking) (), is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Hunan province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It has a history of 2500 years and remains an important commercial and transportation city in Huna ...

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China ...

. Located on the southwest of the province and middle of Shaoyang's jurisdiction, the city is bordered to the north by

Dongkou Dongkou County () is a county in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in west-central Hunan, the county is bordered to the northeast by Longhui County, to the northwest by Xupu County and Hongjia ...

and Longhui Counties, to the west by Suining County, to the southwest by

Chengbu County Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Chengbu County", commonly abbreviated as "Chengbu", ) is an autonomous county of Miao people in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located on ...

, to the southeast by

Xinning County Xinning County () is a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in the Provinces of China, Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang, Shaoyang City. Located on the south western margin of Hunan, the county is ...

, to the northeast by Shaoyang County. Wugang City covers , as of the 2010 census, the city had a registered population of 810,003 and a resident population of 734,870;about the population of Wugang City, according to the comprehensive analysis on the 2010 Population Census of Wugang City (10-Feb-12)
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/ref> In 2014, it had a registered population of 834,868 and a resident population of 759,312.about the population of Wugang City in 2014

/ref> The city has four

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, 11

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and three

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

under its jurisdiction, the government seat is Shuiximen Subdistrict.about the divisions of Wugang City (December 2, 2015), according to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Wugang City on December 2, 2015
rednet.cn: 《湖南省民政厅关于同意武冈市乡镇区划调整方案的批复》(湘民行发〔2015〕119号)
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Administrative divisions

;4 subdistricts * Faxiangyan () * Shuiximen () * Yingchunting () * Yuanmenkou () ;11 towns * Choushutang () * Dadian () * Dengjiapu () * Dengyuantai () * Jingzhupu () * Longxi () * Qinqiao () * Shuangpai () * Simachong () * Wantouqiao () * Wenping () ;3 township * Maping () * Shuijinping () *

Yantian Yantian District () is one of the nine districts of the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is adjacent to Shenzhen River and Hong Kong to the south, and is surrounded by Luohu, Longgang and Pingshan districts of Shenzhen. Before 1960s, th ...

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Language

The Wugang dialect belongs to

Xiang Chinese Xiang or Hsiang (; ); Changsha Xiang: ''sian1 y3'', also known as Hunanese (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages, spoken mainly in Hunan province but also in northern Guangxi and parts of neighbori ...

language. The minority languages of Miao people and Yao people are also spoken.

Ethnic groups

Wugang is mostly populated by Xiang-speaking people which is a branch of Han-Chinese. There are also Miao minority and Yao minority living in Wugang. One branch of the Wugang Yao people is known as "Dang" ().

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