Where is Huanggang City in Hubei?

Huanggang City is located in the eastern part of Hubei Province.

Huanggang, a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, is located in the eastern part of Hubei Province, at the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains, on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in the middle section of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, gradually sloping from north to south, and the northeastern border with Henan and Anhui is the Dabie Mountains.

Huanggang is connected to Henan in the north, Anhui in the east, and Ezhou, Huangshi and Jiujiang in the south across the river. The geographical position is 114°24′-116°07′ east longitude and 29°45′-31°40′ north latitude. Huanggang City is the seat of the party, government and military organs in Huangzhou, 78 kilometers west of the provincial capital Wuhan.

Huanggang city has a land area of ??17,446 square kilometers, accounting for 9.4% of the total area of ??Hubei Province. Of the city's total area, plains account for 12.2%, hills account for 10.3%, hills account for 43.3%, and mountains account for 34.2%. The longest distance from east to west is 168 kilometers, and the widest span from north to south is 208 kilometers.

Huanggang gradually slopes from north to south. The northeastern border with Henan and Anhui is the Dabie Mountains. The main ridge runs northwest to southeast. There are 96 peaks with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters. They are located in Luotian and Yingshan counties. The main peak of Tiantangzhai is 1,729 meters above sea level, the highest point in the city.

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Introduction to Huanggang:

Huanggang has a long history and culture. Huanggang has a history of more than 2,000 years. It gave birth to the fourth ancestors of Chinese Zen Buddhism, Daoxin, the fifth ancestor, Hongren, and the sixth ancestor Huineng, Bi Sheng, the inventor of movable type printing in the Song Dynasty, Li Shizhen, the medical sage of the Ming Dynasty, Li Siguang, the giant of modern geological science, and patriotic poets and scholars. Wen Yiduo, Chinese master Huang Kan, philosopher Xiong Shili, literary critic Hu Feng, etc.

Tourism resources: In 2013, the city had the Jute Uprising and Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area Memorial Garden, Li Xiannian’s Former Residence Memorial Garden, Macheng Guifeng Mountain Scenic Area, Macheng Martyrs Memorial Garden, Dabie Mountain National Forest Park, Tiantangzhai Scenic Area, Hubei Dabie Mountain Main Peak Scenic Area, Yingshan Taohuachong Scenic Area, Xishui Triangle Mountain Tourist Resort, Yiai Lake Park, etc.

Famous specialties include Wuxue crisp candy, Wuxue Longping oil noodles, Huangzhou Dongpo cake, Xishui nine-hole lotus root starch, Qichun family wine, yellow plum fish noodles, etc.

Huanggang’s people are simple and kind, with farming, commerce, language, clothing, food, medicine, religion, weddings and funerals, four seasons and eight festivals, and other production and living customs covering a wide range of areas and having a long history. Distinctive characteristics include making glutinous rice cakes during the Spring Festival, making soft rice cakes during the Flower Dynasty, drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival, and planting calamus and mugwort leaves at every house, making pot-baked cakes or "thousand-layer cakes" during the wheat harvest season, and making "Qiji cakes" for weddings and weddings, etc.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Huanggang

Huanggang Municipal People's Government Website - Huanggang Overview