Huangzhou, Huanggang

Huangzhou, Huanggang
Huangzhou, Huanggang
Traditional Chinese	黃州區
Simplified Chinese	黄州区
Literal meaning	District of the Yellow Prefectural Seat
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Huángzhōu Qū
Wade–Giles	Huang-chou Ch‘ü

Huangzhou

黄州区
Hwangchow, Hoang-tcheou
Huangzhou 黄州区 Hwangchow, Hoang-tcheou
District
	Li Siguang Memorial Museum
	Huangzhou Location in Hubei
	Coordinates: 30°26′02″N 114°52′44″E / 30.434°N 114.879°E
Country	China
Province	Hubei
Prefecture-level city	Huanggang
Area
• Total	362.37 km2 (139.91 sq mi)
Population (2020 census)
• Total	456,862
• Density	1,300/km2 (3,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.huangzhou.gov.cn

Huangzhou District is an urban district of Huanggang, Hubei province, China.

History

Maps of "Hoang-tcheou-fou" and "Yong-tcheou-fou" from Du Halde's 1735 *Description of China*, based on accounts by Jesuit missionaries.

In 845 BC Marquis Wen 文侯 Huang Meng 黃孟 (aka Huang Zhang 黃璋) moved the capital of the State of Huang from Yicheng to Huangchuan (present-day Huangchuan, Henan). Huang Xi's descendants ruled State of Huang until 648 BC when it was destroyed by the State of Chu. The Marquis of Huang, Marquis Mu 穆侯 Huang Qisheng 黃企生, fled to the state of Qi. The people of Huang were forced to relocate to Chu. They settled in the region of present-day Hubei province, in a region known as the Jiangxia Prefecture 江夏郡 during the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). There are many places in this region today that were named after Huang e.g. Huanggang, Huangpi, Huangmei, Huangshi, Huang'an (now Hong'an), Huangzhou etc. A large number of the people of Huang were also relocated to regions south of the Yangtze River.

Huangzhou was previously a separate city which administered a prefecture in its own right. Huanggang Middle School and the campuses of Huanggang Normal University are located in Huangzhou.