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Prefecture-level city
  
Lowest elevation
  
23 m (75 ft)

Postal code
  
465200

Province
  
Highest elevation
  
1,025 m (3,363 ft)

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Area
  
2,916 km²

Area code
  
0376

Gushi County httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Country
  
People's Republic of China

Points of interest
  
Panguo Gucheng Relic Site, Xiushui Park

Gushi (Chinese: 固始; pinyin: Gùshǐ) is a county of 1,023,857 people directly governed by Henan province, People's Republic of China.

Contents

Map of Gushi, Xinyang, Henan, China

Administration

Gushi has 3 subdistricts, 17 towns and 13 townships.

History

Gushi County was the capital of one of the two States of Liao during the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history (771–436 BCE).

Demographic

Gushi is the most-populous county in the Henan Province, with an estimated record high of 1,734,100 citizens with registration as of 2013, according to the 2013 annual statistics report. As of the sixth national census in 2010, there are 1,023,857 residents living inside the county, showing that nearly half of the population moved out of the county without changing their residents registration status.

In 2010, the county had a population density of 348 people per square kilometer (901/mi²).

Transportation

The Nanjing–Xi'an Railway along as G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway passing through the southern side of Gushi from the east to the west, connect the county with Xinyang and Hefei. A branch line, S39 Huaibin-Gushi Expressway links the county seat to the national expressway network from north to south. One major railway station located in the Town of Duanji in the southern part of the county and three intersections of the expressways have connections with local roads in the central and southern area. The national highway network, connecting other counties in this region, consists of three different routes: Line 220, Line 312 and Line 328. In the north border to Anhui, Huai River flowing from the west to the east serves as a class III Waterway.

Notable people

  • Chen Yuanguang, Sacred Prince, Developer of Zhangzhou
  • Wang Shenzhi, the founder of the Min Kingdom on the southeast coast of China
  • References

    Gushi County Wikipedia


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