He County or Hexian () is a

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in the east of

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Anhui

Province,

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, under the jurisdiction of

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. It has a population of 650,000 and an area of . The government of He County is located in Liyang Town.

History

From 1965 to 2011, He County was under the jurisdiction of

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Chaohu

. On August 22, 2011, the

provincial government reorganized the province and split Chaohu into three parts that were absorbed by neighboring

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Geography

He County is located on the northern bank of the

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. He County borders

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Chuzhou

to the northwest,

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Nanjing

to the northeast, the three urban districts of

to the east,

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Wuhu

to the south, and

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to the west. He County has a total area of 1318.6 square kilometers (509 sq mi), of which 48% is arable land. He County is situated on the

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and has relatively flat terrain in the southeast, with ponds dotting the alluvial plains, with the northwest of the county consisting of rolling hills.

Administrative divisions

He County has jurisdiction to 10 towns, and its 1 former town and 4 former townships were merged to other towns. ;10 Towns

Archaeology

Fossils of ''

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'', a predecessor of modern humans, were excavated from Longtandong cave on the side of Wanjiashan mountain in Hexian between 1980 and 1981.Hexian Homo erectus

Notable people

* Zhang Ji,

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poet and author *

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, actor and martial artist (ancestry) *

Xu Haifeng Xu Haifeng (; born August 1, 1957) is a male Chinese pistol shooter Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow and arrow, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowgun, blowpipe). Even the acts ...

, first Chinese gold Olympic medal winner * Shou-Wu Zhang, mathematician

References

County-level divisions of Anhui Paleoanthropological sites {{Maanshan-geo-stub