Guozhou or Guo Prefecture (果州) was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in

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, centering on modern

Nanchong Nanchong ( zh, c=南充 , p=Nánchōng , w=Nan-ch'ung; Sichuanese: lan2cong1) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, with an area of . At the 2020 census it was home to 5,607,565 people, of whom 1,936,534 liv ...

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

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. It existed (intermittently) from 621 until 1227. Between 771 and 775 it was known as Chongzhou or Chong Prefecture (充州).

Geography

The administrative region of Guozhou in the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed ...

is in modern northeastern

. It probably includes parts of modern: *Under the administration of

: **Nanchong ** Peng'an County ** Yingshan County ** Xichong County *Under the administration of

Guang'an Guang'an is a prefecture-level city in eastern Sichuan province. It is most famous as the birthplace of China's former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. Guang'an lies between the hills of central Sichuan and the gorges area of the east. Guang'an ...

: **

Yuechi County Yuechi County () is a county in the east of Sichuan province, China, bordering Chongqing Municipality to the south. It is administratively governed by the prefecture-level city of Guang'an. The place is accessible by bus from Chengdu and Nanchon ...

References

* Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of the Song dynasty Prefectures of Later Tang Prefectures of Later Shu Prefectures of Former Shu Former prefectures in Sichuan {{China-hist-stub