How many counties are there in Xiaogan City?

Xiaogan City is one of the prefecture-level cities in Hubei Province. It governs Xiaonan District and three counties: Yunmeng, Xiaochang, and Dawu, and manages three county-level cities: Yingcheng, Anlu, and Hanchuan.

Xiaogan is located in the northeastern part of Hubei Province, north of the Yangtze River and east of the Han River. It borders Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province. It is about 60 kilometers away from the center of Wuhan and only 30 kilometers away from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. Resources are shared. The city covers an area of ??8,910 square kilometers, and its total population in 2016 was 5.3 million.

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Location and Realm

Xiaogan City is located in the middle of northeastern Hubei Province, south of Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, north of the Yangtze River, and east of the Han River , adjacent to Dongxihu District and Xiantao City of Wuhan City in the south, Xinyang City in Henan Province in the north, Suizhou, Jingmen, Tianmen and other cities and counties in the west, and Hong'an County in Huanggang City and Huangpi District in Wuhan City in the east. The geographical location is 30°23′-31°52′ north latitude and 113°19′-114°35′ east longitude. The whole territory is about 163 kilometers long from north to south and 122 kilometers wide from east to west. The city's land area is 8910 square kilometers.

Xiaogan is close to Wuhan, with superior location and convenient transportation. It is 60 kilometers away from Wuhan city center, 30 kilometers away from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, and 50 kilometers away from Wuhan Port, the largest inland port. The Beijing-Guangzhou, Hanyu, and Changjing railways pass through the territory; 4 expressways including Beijing-Zhuhai, Fuyin, Hurong, and Wujing; two national highways 107 and 316 crisscross the territory; Hanjiang River, Fuhe River, Huanhe River, and Hanbei River It is connected to the Yangtze River and reaches all places along the Yangtze River. ?

Topography

The terrain of Xiaogan City is high in the north and low in the south, with a sloping landform transitioning from Dabie Mountain and Tongbai Mountain to the Jianghan Plain. Generally speaking, 10% are low mountains, 30% are plains, and 60% are hills. Xiaogan City is located to the north of the Yangtze River and south of the Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountains. It spans two major river basins, the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, of which the Yangtze River basin is 8,438.12 square kilometers and the Huaihe River basin is 471.88 square kilometers.

The Tongbai Mountain Remaining Range and the Dabie Mountain Remaining Range extend from northwest to southeast, northeast to southwest to the north respectively, and are the watersheds of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River systems. The overall terrain trend is high in the north and low in the south. The Huaihe River Basin is high in the southwest and low in the northeast; the Yangtze River Basin is high in the north and low in the south. The northern part of the territory is a low mountainous area, with peak heights generally between 400 and 800 meters. The highest peaks in the territory are Wuyue Mountain at the junction of Hubei and Henan, with an altitude of 880 meters, and the Shuangfeng Peak in Xiaochang, with an altitude of 873.7 meters.

The central part is a hilly area, with the ground elevation ranging from 50 to 150 meters above sea level. The southern part is the plain lake area, which is part of the Jianghan Plain. The ground elevation is below 50 meters above sea level. The lowest point (the bottom of the river bed is not counted) is Tongjia Lake in Xiaonan District, with an altitude of 17.5 meters. The mountainous area is 1,887 square kilometers, accounting for 21% of Xiaogan City's land area. The hilly area is 3,692 square kilometers, accounting for 41% of Xiaogan City's land area. The plain lake area is 3,341 square kilometers, accounting for 37% of Xiaogan City's land area.

Ethnic population

Ethnic groups

According to the official government website in 2017, Xiaogan City is an area where ethnic minorities live scattered. ***There are Tujia, Hui, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, Korean, Manchu, Dong, Yao, Bai, Hani, Dai, Li, Wa, She, Shui, Naxi, Tu, Daur, There are 31 ethnic minorities including Mulao, Salar, Maonan, Gelao, Xibo, Russian, Jing, and Hezhe, with a population of 5,600, accounting for 70,000 of the total population. They are distributed in 7 counties and 98 villages in the Shuangfeng Mountain tourist resort. Township, town, field, street.

Among them, the Tujia and Hui ethnic groups have a population of more than 1,000 people, and the Miao, Zhuang, Manchu, Dong, and Mongolian people have a population of more than 100 people. The annual floating population of ethnic minorities is more than 1,000 people.

Population

At the end of 2016, the city’s permanent population was 4.9043 million, including 2.6934 million in urban areas. The urbanization rate reached 54.92%. According to statistics from the public security department, the city's total registered population at the end of the year was 5.2321 million. The number of births in the year was 67,300, with a birth rate of 12.83‰; the number of deaths was 30,200, with a death rate of 5.76‰, and the natural population growth rate was 7.07%. ?

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiaogan City