Huaihua

Huaihua

怀化市
Huaihua 怀化市
Prefecture-level city
	Yuan River in Yuanling County
	Location of Huaihua City jurisdiction in Hunan
	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
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hunan
Municipal seat	Hecheng District
Area
• Prefecture-level city	27,600 km2 (10,700 sq mi)
• Urban (2017)	64.00 km2 (24.71 sq mi)
• Districts	722.8 km2 (279.1 sq mi)
Population
• Prefecture-level city	5,235,200
• Density	190/km2 (490/sq mi)
• Urban (2017)	623,800
• Urban density	9,700/km2 (25,000/sq mi)
• Districts	855,000
GDP
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 187.8 billion; US$ 27.8 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 35,865; US$ 5,333
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-HN-12
Website	www.huaihua.gov.cn

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

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]

^ ^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. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
^ "2022年湖南省各市州地区生产总值（三季度".
^ Huaihua Census 2010 Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine and Hunan Census 2010 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ xzqh.org: Huaihua introduction, also see Huaihua Yearbook 2015
^ Ethnic group Analysis of Huaihua Census 2010 (2012-11-30)
^ According to China census 2010, there is 2,879,974 Dong ethnic population; Huaihua lives 816,481 population of Dong ethnic group, it shares 28.35% of Chinese Dong people.
^ the forest coverage in 2015 is according to 2015 Statistical Report on National Economy and Social Development of Huaihua

[CUCSY_2017-1] Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 68. Retrieved 11 January 2020.

[2] "2022年湖南省各市州地区生产总值（三季度".

[census2010-3] Huaihua Census 2010 Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine and Hunan Census 2010 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

[huaihua-detail-4] xzqh.org: Huaihua introduction, also see Huaihua Yearbook 2015

[ethnic_group-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, 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

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