Huangpi District () is one of 13 urban

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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 Chi ...

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...

, the capital of

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, situated on the northern (left) bank of the

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...

. The

Sheshui The She River (''She'' pronounced like "shuh"), also known by its Chinese name Sheshui, is a left tributary of the Yangtze in central China. It has a length of 112 km. The route of the She River was noted in the Commentary on the Water C ...

enters the Yangtze at Huangpi. The district is primarily rural, but also includes important infrastructure facilities, such as

Wuhan Tianhe International Airport Wuhan Tianhe International Airport is an airport serving Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It was opened on 15 April 1995, replacing the old Hankou Wangjiadun Airport and Nanhu Airport as the major airport of Wuhan. The airport ...

and Wuhan North Railway Station, which is one of the main freight stations and

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s on the Beijing–Guangzhou Railway. It is the northernmost of Wuhan's districts as well as the most spacious. On the left bank of the Yangtze, it borders the districts of

Xinzhou Xinzhou, ancient name Xiurong (秀荣), is a prefecture-level city occupying the north-central section of Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the northwest ...

to the east, and Jiang'an to the south, and

Dongxihu Dongxihu District () is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China, forming part of the city's western suburbs. It lies on the north (left) bank of the Han River. Along with Qiaokou, it ...

to the southwest; on the opposite bank, it borders

Hongshan Hongshan may refer to: Places in China Districts *Hongshan District, Chifeng () in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia *Hongshan District, Wuhan () in Wuhan, Hubei Subdistricts * Hongshan Subdistrict, Changsha (), in Kaifu District, Changsha, Hunan * Hong ...

. It also borders the

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Huanggang Huanggang is a prefecture-level city in easternmost Hubei Province, China. It is situated to the north of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and is bounded in the north by the Dabie Mountains and is named after Mount Huanggang. It borde ...

to the northeast and

Xiaogan Xiaogan () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hubei province, People's Republic of China, some northwest of the provincial capital of Wuhan. According to the 2020 census, its population totaled 4,270,371, of whom 988,479 lived in the buil ...

to the northwest. The

(She River) enters the Yangtze River at Shekou in Huangpi. The use of the character ''pi'' () in Huangpi is cited in the

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as an example of usage of this infrequently encountered pronunciation for the character. The Wuhan–Xiaogan Intercity Railway, one of the lines of the Wuhan Metropolitan Area Intercity Railway, serves parts of Huangpi District, in particular Wuhan Tianhe Airport. The rail line opened on December 1, 2016.

History

In 845 BC Marquis Wen () Huang Meng (, aka Huang Zhang ()) moved the capital of the State of Huang from Yicheng to Huangchuan (present-day Huangchuan, Henan). Huang Xi's descendants ruled

State of Huang Huang () was a State (Ancient China), vassal state that existed during the Zhou dynasty until the middle Spring and Autumn period. In the summer of 648 BC it was annexed by the state of Chu. Its capital was in present-day Huangchuan County, Henan ...

until 648 BC when it was destroyed by the State of Chu. The Marquis of Huang, Marquis Mu () Huang Qisheng (), 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 () 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, Huangan, Huangzhou etc. A large number of the people of Huang were also relocated to regions south of the Yangtze River.

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