Xuanhan County () is a county in the northeast of

Sichuan Province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

, China, bordering

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

to the east. It is under the administration of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China' ...

Dazhou Dazhou () is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. As of 2020 census, Dazhou was home to 5,385,422 inhabitants whom 1,850,869 lived in the ...

. According to recent population census, Xuanhan county has a population of about 1.3 million people. The town of Xuanhan is located in the valley of a river called Zhouhe. The town is surrounded by mountains. Because of its location in the loop of the river the town of Xuanhan is quite oblong. Besides from the very populated centre of the Xuanhan county, Xuanhan contains many mountains and much natural landscapes.

History

Xuanhan County was called Dongxiang County () from the 8th year of the

Emperor He of Han Emperor He of Han (; 79 – 13 February 106) was an emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty who ruled from 88 to 106. He was the 4th emperor of the Eastern Han. Emperor He was the son of Emperor Zhang. He ascended the throne at the age of nine an ...

(Yongyuan era, A.D. 96) until 1913. In 1914, after the establishment of the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

, the county changed its name to Xuanhan County.

Transport

It will be served by

Xuanhan South railway station Xuanhan County () is a county in the northeast of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Chongqing to the east. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Dazhou. According to recent population census, Xuanhan county has a popul ...

and Fankuai railway station on

Chongqing–Xi'an high-speed railway The Chongqing–Xi'an high speed railway is a planned railway line in China. It is long and has a design speed of . It will be part of the Baotou (Yinchuan)–Hainan corridor. History Work on the section between Xi'an and Ankang began on 29 Jun ...

in the future.

Climate

References

County-level divisions of Sichuan Dazhou {{Sichuan-geo-stub