Yuezhou or Yue Prefecture was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in

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in modern

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Ji ...

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, centering on modern

Shaoxing Shaoxing (; ) is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay in northeastern Zhejiang province, China. It was formerly known as Kuaiji and Shanyin and abbreviated in Chinese as (''Yuè'') from the area's former inhabitant ...

. It existed (intermittently) from 605 until 1131, when it became Shaoxing Prefecture.

Counties

Yue Prefecture administered the following counties (縣) through history:

References

* * * 605 establishments 7th-century establishments in China 1131 disestablishments in Asia 12th-century disestablishments in China Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of the Sui dynasty Prefectures of Wuyue Liangzhe East Circuit Shaoxing Former prefectures in Zhejiang {{China-hist-stub