Hongze
洪泽区 Hungtze | |
|---|---|
 Commercial area in Hongze District | |
  Hongze Location in Jiangsu | |
| Coordinates: 33°13′26″N 118°49′34″E / 33.224°N 118.826°E[1] | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangsu |
| Prefecture-level city | Huai'an |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,394 km2 (538 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 388,000 |
| • Density | 280/km2 (720/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 223100 |
Hongze (simplified Chinese: 洪泽; traditional Chinese: 洪澤; pinyin: Hóngzé) is one of four districts (a former county) of the prefecture-level city of Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, China. Occupying the southeastern shores of Lake Hongze, it borders the prefecture-level cities of Suqian to the northwest and Yangzhou (briefly) to the east.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the New Fourth Army established Huaibao and Hongze counties around Lake Hongze, in 1940 and 1941 respectively. Both counties were dissolved in 1950. The new Hongze county, within a wider area around the lake, was founded to implement the guiding principle of "reshuffling administrative divisions by the lake" in 1956.[2]
- ^ "Hongze" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
- ^ 江苏省志・地理志 [Jiangsu Provical Gazetteer, Volume on Geography] (PDF). Jiangsu Guji Press. 1999. pp. 100–1. ISBN 978-7-806-43266-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-05. Retrieved 2019-03-22.