Hanzhong

Hanzhong (<a href="/facts/Simplified_Chinese_characters/UcAD6xXs">simplified Chinese</a>: 汉中; <a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">traditional Chinese</a>: 漢中; lit. 'middle of the <a href="/facts/Han_River_(Hubei)/bXvj0jC4">Han River</a>'; abbreviation: Han) is a <a href="/facts/Prefecture-level_city/qINdybtc">prefecture-level city</a> in <a href="/facts/Southern_Shaanxi/skMXvKDA">the southwest</a> of <a href="/facts/Shaanxi/tNvSEe3v">Shaanxi province</a>, China, bordering the provinces of <a href="/facts/Sichuan/e65P53aD">Sichuan</a> to the south and <a href="/facts/Gansu/Uo1Sop7n">Gansu</a> to the west.
The founder of the <a href="/facts/Han_dynasty/hanfxS9D">Han dynasty</a>, <a href="/facts/Liu_Bang/nNvXYAt3">Liu Bang</a>, was once enfeoffed as the king of the Hanzhong region after overthrowing the <a href="/facts/Qin_dynasty/TeBU8Nh3">Qin dynasty</a>. During the <a href="/facts/Chu-Han_contention/UoELS0FG">Chu-Han contention</a>, Liu Bang shortened his title to the King of Han (漢王), and later used it as the name of his imperial dynasty. In this way, Hanzhong was responsible for the naming of the Han dynasty, which was later hailed as the first <a href="/facts/Golden_age/8yE4xALT">golden age</a> in imperial Chinese history and lends its name to <a href="/facts/Han_Chinese/gMl0sKy0">the principal ethnic group in China</a>.
Hanzhong is located at the modern <a href="/facts/Headwater/08NFsHeG">headwater</a> of the Han River, the largest tributary of the <a href="/facts/Yangtze_River/f9A2h4rQ">Yangtze River</a>. Hanzhong city covers 27,246 square kilometres (10,520 sq mi) and is centered around the <a href="/facts/Hantai_District/AKFvUlFv">Hantai District</a>. The prefecture-level city consists of two urban district and nine rural counties. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,211,462, of whom 1,084,448 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Hantai and Nanzheng districts.

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