Loudi, also known as Xingcheng, is located in the geographical and geometric center of Hunan. Yiyang city in the north, Shaoyang city in the south, Huaihua city in the west and Xiangtan city in the east. Loudi is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province, with a total area of 8 1 17 square kilometers. As of May 20021,14, Loudi had jurisdiction over 2 counties, 2 cities and 3 districts, with a registered population of 4,484,900 (202 1).
Loudi is the youngest prefecture-level city in Hunan Province, an important part of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration, and is known as the "Pearl of Hunan". Loudi territory belonged to Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Hengyang County and Zhaoling County during the Three Kingdoms Period. Xinhua County became the earliest established county in Loudi, and was subordinate to Shaoyang County in the Song Dynasty.
Brief introduction of Hunan
Hunan Province, referred to as "Xiang" for short, is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC). Changsha, the provincial capital, is bounded by 24 38 ′ ~ 30 08 ′ north latitude and108 47 ′ ~11415 ′ east longitude. It borders Jiangxi in the east, Chongqing and Guizhou in the west, Guangdong and Guangxi in the south and Hubei in the north, with a total area of 2 1. 1.8 million square kilometers.
Hunan is located in the transition zone from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the south of the Yangtze River and Nanling Mountains to Jianghan Plain, with horseshoe-shaped landform, surrounded by mountains on three sides and open to the north. It is composed of plains, basins, hills, mountains, rivers and lakes, spanning the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, and belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate.
As of May, 2002 1 year, Hunan Province had 14 prefecture-level administrative regions, including 13 prefecture-level cities and1autonomous prefecture. * * * There are 36 municipal districts, 19 county-level cities, 60 counties and 7 autonomous counties, with a total of 122 county-level divisions. 403 streets, 1 138 towns, 309 townships and 83 ethnic townships, with a total of 1933 township divisions.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Hunan.