Yuan'an County () is a county in the west of
Hubei
Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...
province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of the
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...
of
Yichang
Yichang ( zh, s= ), Postal Map Romanization, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. Yichang had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most pop ...
.
''
Yuanansuchus'', an extinct
mastodonsauroid temnospondyl
Temnospondyli (from Greek language, Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') or temnospondyls is a diverse ancient order (biology), order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered Labyrinth ...
, is named after Yuan'an County where its remains were first discovered.
Administrative divisions
Six towns:
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Mingfeng (),
Hualinsi (),
Jiuxian (),
Yangping (),
Maopingchang (),
Hehua ()
The only township is
Hekou Township ()
Climate
References
Counties of Hubei
Geography of Yichang
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