Where is Hefei?

Hefei, referred to as "Lu" or "He" for short, was called Luzhou, Luyang and Hefei in ancient times. [1][82][83] Anhui Province is a prefecture-level city, a provincial capital city and an I-type city, located between 30 57'-32 32' north latitude and 65 438 east longitude. It belongs to subtropical monsoon humid climate. [60] By 2022, Hefei will have 4 districts and 4 counties, governing 1 county-level city, [62] with a total area of 1 1445 square kilometers. [16] By the end of 2022, the resident population of Hefei was 9.634 million, and the urbanization rate was 84.64%. [42][59][84][92]

Hefei area is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization, so it is named because both Donghe Feihe River and Nanhe Feihe River originated here. In the history of more than 3000 years, there are 2 100 years of county governance and 1400 years of government governance, and several of them are state and county governance. It is an important administrative center, commercial port and military center in the Jianghuai area, and is known as "the right throat of Huaihe River, the lips and teeth of Jiangnan", "the first county of Jianghuai, the crossroads of Wu Chu" and "the hometown of the Three Kingdoms and Bao Zheng". From 65438 to 0952, Hefei officially became the capital of Anhui Province. [ 16][60]

Hefei is the central city of Hefei metropolitan area, the sub-central city of China Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration approved by the State Council, an important national scientific research and education base, modern manufacturing base and comprehensive transportation hub, [2] the core city of Wanjiang City Belt to undertake industrial transfer demonstration zone, [3] the central city of G60 Science and Technology Corridor, a strategic two-node city of "Belt and Road" and Yangtze River Economic Belt, a comprehensive national science center, a member city of the World Science and Technology Cities Alliance, and a national science and technology innovation pilot city. [6][6 1]

In 2022, Hefei achieved a GDP of 120 13 1 100 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.5%. [9 1]

Chinese name

Hefei city

Foreign name

Hefei

Another name

Luzhou, Luyang, Hezhou and Hefei

Administrative division code

340 100

Administrative category

prefecture-level city