Zongyang County (), is a county in southern

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

province, located mostly on the northern (left) bank of the

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. It is under the jurisdiction 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' ...

Tongling Tongling (; former names: Tunglinghsien, Tungkwanshan) is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province. A river port along the Yangtze River, Tongling borders Wuhu to the east, Chizhou to the southwest and Anqing to the west. As of the 2 ...

. It has a population of 960,000 and an area of . The government of Zongyang County is located in Zongyang Town (). On 13 October 2015, Zongyang County jurisdiction was transferred from

Anqing Anqing (, also Nganking, formerly Hwaining, now the name of Huaining County) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhui province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 4,165,284 as of the 2020 census, with 804,493 living in the ...

. In the past, Zongyang County was named Tonglu County. In 1951, Tonglu County was changed to Hudong County. In 1954, the county seat was moved to Zongyang Town. On July 1, 1955, the name of the county in Han Dynasty was restored-Zongyang County. In January 2016, Zongyang County was officially placed under the jurisdiction of Tongling City by Anqing City.

Administrative divisions

Zongyang County has jurisdiction over seventeen

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, five townships and one other area. Seventeen towns: * Zongyang (), Oushan (), Tanggou (), Laozhou (), Chenyaohu (), Zhoutan (), Hengbu (), Xiangpu (), Qianqiao (),

Qilin The qilin (; ) is a legendary hooved chimerical creature that appears in Chinese mythology, and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. Qilin are a specific type of the mythological family of on ...

(), Yijin (), Fushan (), Huigong (), Guanbuqiao (),

Qianpu Qianzhuang () were local independent Chinese banks in the early modern period, as distinguished from the nation-wide bank networks headquartered in Shanxi province called the " Shanxi banks" (票號, ''piaohao''). Also known by a variety of reg ...

(), Jinshe (), Bailiu () Five townships: *

Tietong Township Tietong Township () is a township in Zongyang County, Anhui, China. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,448 and an area of . It is an island between the Yangtze River and Jia River. History On July 16, 2020, all the remaining 2,272 peop ...

(), Fengyi Township (), Changsha Township (), Baimei Township (), Yutan Township () Other area: * Zongyang Economic Development Area () Historical divisions of Guangshui: Towns: *Zongyang (), Oushan (), Tanggou (), Laozhou (), Chenyaohu (), Zhoutan (), Hengbu (), Xiangpu (), Qianqiao (), Qilin (), Changsha Township (), Qianpu Township (), Jinshe Township (), Baimei Township (), Baihu Township (), Huigong Township (), Yutan Township ()

Dialect

Zongyang dialect () is a dialect of

Lower Yangtze Mandarin Lower Yangtze Mandarin () is one of the most divergent and least mutually-intelligible of the Mandarin languages, as it neighbours the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of Sinitic languages. It is also known as Jiang–Huai Mandarin (), named after the ...

which is spoken in Zongyang County.

Climate

References

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