Zongyang County () is a county in southern

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

province, located mostly on the northern (left) bank of the

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. It is under the jurisdiction of the

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Tongling Tongling () is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province of China. A river port along the Yangtze River, Tongling borders Wuhu to the east, Chizhou to the southwest and Anqing to the west. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1, ...

. It has a population of 960,000 and an area of . The government of Zongyang County is located in Zongyang Town (). On 13 October 2015, Zongyang County jurisdiction was transferred from

Anqing Anqing ( zh, s=, t=安慶, p=Ānqìng, l=, also Yicheng, Nganking and formerly Hwaining, now the name of Huaining County) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhui province of China, province, China, People's Republic of China. Its popu ...

. In the past, Zongyang County was named Tonglu County. In 1951, Tonglu County was changed to Hudong County. In 1954, the county seat was moved to Zongyang Town. On July 1, 1955, the name of the county in the

Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

was restored – Zongyang County. In January 2016, Zongyang County was officially placed under the jurisdiction of Tongling City by Anqing City.

Administrative divisions

Zongyang County has jurisdiction over 15

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, 1 township and one other area. ;15 towns: Hengbu (), Xiangpu (), Qianqiao (),

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(), Yijin (), Fushan (), Huigong (), Guanbuqiao (), Qianpu (), Jinshe (), Bailiu (), Yutan (), Zongyang (), Oushan (), Tanggou (); ;1 townships: Baimei Township (); ;Other area: * Zongyang Economic Development Area ().

Historical divisions

Historical divisions of Guangshui: Towns: *Zongyang (), Oushan (), Tanggou (), Laozhou (), Chenyaohu (), Zhoutan (), Hengbu (), Xiangpu (), Qianqiao (), Qilin (), Yijin (), Fushan (), Guanbuqiao () Townships: * Tietong Township (), Fengyi Township (), Changsha Township (), Qianpu Township (), Jinshe Township (), Baimei Township (), Baihu Township (), Huigong Township (), Yutan Township ()

Dialect

The Zongyang dialect () is a dialect of

Lower Yangtze Mandarin Lower Yangtze Mandarin () is one of the most divergent and least mutually-intelligible of the Mandarin language varieties, as it neighbours the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of Sinitic languages. It is also known as Jiang–Huai Mandarin (), nam ...

which is spoken in Zongyang County.

Climate

References

County-level divisions of Anhui Tongling {{Anqing-geo-stub