Which city does Huanggang belong to?

Huanggang, a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, is located in the east of Hubei Province, at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain, on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and in the middle section of Beijing-Kowloon Railway.

It has jurisdiction over 7 counties of Hong 'an, Luotian, Yingshan, Xishui, Qichun, Huangmei and Tuanfeng, 2 cities of Wuxue and Macheng, Huangzhou District, Longgan Lake Management Zone and Huanggang Economic Development Zone, with a territory area of 17400 square kilometers and a total population of 755438+08.

History and culture have a long history. Huanggang has a history of more than 2,000 years, and has nurtured a large number of scientific and cultural masters, such as Daoxin, Hongren and Huineng, the fourth ancestor of Zen Buddhism in China, Bi Sheng, the inventor of movable type printing in Song Dynasty, Li Shizhen, the medical sage in Ming Dynasty, Li Siguang, the great master of modern geological science, Wen Yiduo, a patriotic poet and scholar, Huang Kan, a master of Chinese studies, Xiong Shili and Hu Feng, and the translator of Das Kapital, a literary critic in Wang Yanan, which have made great contributions to the historical development of the Chinese nation.

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Huanggang is connected with the mountains and rivers of Wuhan, the provincial capital, and is an important part of Wuhan city circle. The territory is adjacent to a golden waterway (Yangtze River), two airports (Wuhan Tianhe Airport and Jiujiang Airport) and six railways (Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Hejiu Railway, Shanghai Express Railway, Wuma Railway, Xingang Jiangbei Railway and Wuhan Intercity Railway).

There are six Yangtze River Bridges (Hubei-Huanghai Bridge, Huangshi Bridge, Jiujiang Bridge, Erdong Bridge, Huanggang Yangtze River Bridge and Jiujiang Second Bridge) and eight expressway Bridges (Huyu Expressway, Yin Fu Expressway, Daguang Expressway, Wuying Expressway, Wuma Expressway, Mazhu Expressway, Huangge Expressway and Mayang Expressway), which have the characteristics of "connecting the east with the west, running through the north and south, and having a unique position".

Huanggang is surrounded by mountains and waters with beautiful scenery. Dabie Mountain is magnificent and ingenious, stretching for hundreds of miles in the territory. Its main peak, Tiantangzhai, is 1.729 meters above sea level, which is a combination of strangeness, danger and seclusion, comparable to Mount Tai and Lushan. Longgan Lake, called Lei Chi in ancient times, was once connected with Poyang Lake, with an existing water area of 2,500 square kilometers. It is an important wetland reserve in China.

The Yangtze River flows through six counties (cities, districts) in our city, with a total length of 2 12.9 kilometers (excluding the coastline of Jiang Xinzhou) and a total length of 263.07 kilometers. There are six rivers in parallel, namely, Po, Ti, Ba, Qi and Huayang River, with hundreds of lakes and thousands of reservoirs. Huanggang is famous and salty, and the scenery is like a cloud.

Poets such as Li Bai, Du Mu and Wang Yucheng chanted famous works for this, which made Su Shi reach the peak of literature, and Huangmei Opera originated from this. The old revolutionary base area of Dabie Mountain with Huanggang as the center is one of the 12 national red tourism boutique routes and the main body of red tourism in Hubei.

Huanggang Municipal People's Government-Overview of Huanggang