Junzhou or either Jun Prefecture (均州) was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in

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, seated in modern

Danjiangkou Danjiangkou () is a county-level city in northwestern Hubei, China, bordering Henan province to the northeast. The city spans an area of 3,121 square kilometers, and has a population of approximately 478,000 as of 2017. Etymology Danjiangkou tr ...

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. It existed (intermittently) between the years 585 and 1912.

Geography

The administrative region of Junzhou in the

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is in modern

Shiyan Shiyan ( zh, s=十堰 , p=Shíyàn) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hubei, China, bordering Henan to the northeast, Chongqing to the southwest, and Shaanxi to the north and west. At the 2020 census, its population was 3,209,004 of who ...

and

. It probably includes parts of modern

, Danjiankou and Yun County.

References

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