Huaihua

27°34′11″N 110°00′06″E / 27.5698°N 110.0016°E / 27.5698; 110.0016

Huaihua
怀化市
Location of Huaihua City jurisdiction in Hunan
Location of Huaihua City jurisdiction in Hunan
Huaihua is located in Hunan
Huaihua
Huaihua
Location of the city centre in Hunan
Coordinates (Yingfeng Park (迎丰公园)): 27°33′39″N 109°59′08″E / 27.5608°N 109.9856°E / 27.5608; 109.9856
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceHunan
Municipal seatHecheng District
Area
 • Prefecture-level city27,600 km2 (10,700 sq mi)
 • Urban
 (2017)[1]
64.00 km2 (24.71 sq mi)
 • Districts[1]722.8 km2 (279.1 sq mi)
Population
 • Prefecture-level city5,235,200
 • Density190/km2 (490/sq mi)
 • Urban
 (2017)[1]
623,800
 • Urban density9,700/km2 (25,000/sq mi)
 • Districts[1]
855,000
GDP[2]
 • Prefecture-level cityCN¥ 187.8 billion
US$ 27.8 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 35,865
US$ 5,333
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 codeCN-HN-12
Websitewww.huaihua.gov.cn

Huaihua (simplified Chinese: 怀化市; traditional Chinese: 懷化市; pinyin: Huáihuà Shì) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Hunan province, China. It covers 27,564 km2 (10,643 sq mi) and is bordered by Xiangxi to the northwest, Zhangjiajie and Changde to the north, Yiyang, Loudi and Shaoyang to the east, Guilin and Liuzhou of Guangxi to the south, and Qiandongnan and Tongren of Guizhou to the southwest. It has a population of 4,741,948 (2010 census), accounting for 7.22% of the provincial population.[3][4] According to the 2010 Census, 2,909,574 people, or 61.4% of the population, are Han Chinese. Minorities constitute 38.6% of the population, with 1,832,289 people. The Dong, Miao, Tujia, Yao and Bai are major native minority groups.[5] Huaihua is the central region of the Dong ethnic population, home to nearly 28.35% of the Chinese Dong ethnic group.[6]

Huaihua is very mountainous, being located between the Wuyi and Xuefeng mountain ranges. The Yuan river runs from the south to the north. The forest coverage reached 70.8% in 2015.[7]

  1. ^ a b c d Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 68. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. ^ "2022年湖南省各市州地区生产总值(三季度".
  3. ^ Huaihua Census 2010 Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine and Hunan Census 2010 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ xzqh.org: Huaihua introduction, also see Huaihua Yearbook 2015
  5. ^ Ethnic group Analysis of Huaihua Census 2010 (2012-11-30)
  6. ^ According to China census 2010, there is 2,879,974 Dong ethnic population; Huaihua lives 816,481 population of Dong ethnic group[permanent dead link], it shares 28.35% of Chinese Dong people.
  7. ^ the forest coverage in 2015 is according to 2015 Statistical Report on National Economy and Social Development of Huaihua