Xiangyin County () is a

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Hunan Province Hunan is an inland province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Guangdong and Guangxi to the south, and Guizhou and Chon ...

, China, under the administration of Yueyang City. Located on the southeastern shores of Lake Dongting, the

Xiang River The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the second-largest tributary (after the Min River) in terms of surface runoff, the fifth-largest ...

runs south to north through the middle lands of the county, the

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merges into Dongting in the westeastern margin. Xiangyin is bordered by Yueyang County, Yuanjiang City to the north, Heshan District of

Yiyang Yiyang ( zh, s=益阳 , t=益陽 , p=Yìyáng) is a prefecture-level city on the Zi River in Hunan province, China, straddling Lake Dongting and bordering Hubei to the north. According to the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Repub ...

to the west,

Wangcheng District Wangcheng District () is one of six urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China. It is the largest district of Changsha by area. The district is bordered to the north by Miluo City and Xiangyin ...

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to the south, and Miluo City to the east. It has an area of with a population of roughly 770,000. The county is divided into 14 township-level divisions with the

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at Wenxing Town.

Administrative divisions

After an adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Xiangyin county on 20 November 2015, Xiangyin has four townships and 10 towns under its jurisdiction.According to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Xiangyin County, Hunan province on November 20, 2015
(2015-12-04)
also se

/ref> They are: ;4 townships * Jinghe, Xiangyin () * Liutang () * Yanglinzhai () * Yuhua, Xiangyin () ;10 towns * Dongtang() * Helonghu () * Jinlong () * Lingbei, Xiangyin () * Nanhuzhou () * Santang, Xiangyin () * Wenxing () * Xiangbin () * Xinquan () * Zhangshu, Xiangyin County ()

Notable people

* Guo Songtao, Chinese diplomat and statesman during the Qing dynasty. * Zuo Zongtang, Qing dynasty statesman and military leader. * Fan Xudong, famous chemist during the period of Republic of China. * Zhong Zhihua, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, former president of

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, former president of Hunan University. * Yang Mengfei, member of

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. * Hu Zhiying, contemporary

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and

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. * Gan Lin, agronomist and director of the State Anti-Monopoly Bureau.

Climate

Gallery

File:Four Heavenly Kings Hall of Nanquan Temple.jpg, Nanquan Buddhist Temple File:Wenxing Pagoda in Xiangyin County, 19 September 2020F.jpg, Wenxing Pagoda, built in 1795 File:Dacheng Gate, Xiangyin Confucian Temple02.jpg, Xiangyin Confucian Temple File:Zuo Zongtang Memorial Temple, Former Residence of Zuo Zongtang, Picture09.jpg, Zuo Zongtang Memorial Temple File:Statue of Zuo Zongtang in Zuo Zongtang Cultural Park, 19 September 2020E.jpg, Zuo Zongtang Cultural Park

References

www.xzqh.org
County-level divisions of Hunan Yueyang {{Hunan-geo-stub