Lufeng Town () is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and the
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. The equivalent term shire town is used in the US st ...
of
Xupu County
Xupu County () is a county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Huaihua Prefecturel-level City.
Located on the west central Hunan, the county is bordered to the north by Yuanling County, to the northeast by Anhua County, ...
in
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. The town is located in the middle region of the county, it was reformed to merge ''Zhongxia'' Township () and the former ''Lufeng Town'' on November 19, 2015, it has an area of with a population of 160,500 (as of 2015 end). Its
seat of local government
The seat of government is (as defined by ''Brewer's Politics'') "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority".
In most countries, the nation’s capital is also seat of its government, thus that ...
is at Shengli Community.()
[the area and population of Lufeng Town in 2015, according to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Xupu County on November 19, 2015, se]
rednet.cn (Dec.4, 2015)
《湖南省民政厅关于同意溆浦县乡镇区划调整方案的批复》(湘民行发〔2015〕49号)
References
{{Divisions of Xupu County
Xupu
County seats in Hunan