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Changde
Changde (常德) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hunan, China, on the Yuan and Li rivers; founded as Zhang Ruo's city around 277 BC, named Changde in 1117, with 5.107 million residents and Taohuayuan as its leading scenic area.
Chenzhou
Chenzhou (郴州) is a prefecture-level city in southeast Hunan, China, called Hunan's South Gate; 19,400 km2, 4.56 million people (2025), GDP 350.2 billion CNY, and China-leading tungsten, bismuth, and molybdenum reserves.
Daye, Hubei
Daye (大冶市) is a county-level city under Huangshi, Hubei, founded as a county in 967 and named for smelting; a major Chinese copper and iron mining center, later a resource-exhausted city undergoing transformation.
Enshi
Enshi (恩施市) is a county-level city in southwest Hubei, China, seat of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Known as the World Selenium Capital for selenium-rich soils, Enshi Yulu steamed green tea, Tenglong Cave, and landslide-prone karst terrain.
Ezhou
Ezhou (鄂州), ancient Wuchang, a prefecture-level city in eastern Hubei on the Yangtze; 1,596 km², about 1.08 million people, 133 lakes, and Ezhou Huahu International Airport, the world's fourth and Asia's first professional cargo hub airport.
Hengyang
Hengyang (衡阳, Hengzhou, Wild Goose City) is a prefecture-level city in central-south Hunan on the Xiang River, south of Mount Heng; 6.36 million people, 2025 GDP 468.955 billion yuan, site of the 47-day 1944 Battle of Hengyang.
Heshan, Hunan
Heshan District (赫山区) is a district of Yiyang City, Hunan, China, created in 1994 from Yiyang County; 1,278.7 km², about 858,400 residents, GDP 75.8 billion yuan (2025), distinct from Heshan City, Guangdong.
Hongjiang
Hongjiang (洪江) refers to Hongjiang City and Hongjiang District in Huaihua, Hunan, and the Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town, a preserved Ming-Qing merchant town, once southwest China's leading trading and financial hub.
Huaihua
Huaihua (怀化市), also called Hecheng, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Hunan, China; largest in the province at 27,600 km², home to the Huaihua International Land Port, birthplace of hybrid rice, with 2024 GDP of 209.4 billion yuan.
Huanggang, Hubei
Huanggang (黄冈) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Hubei, China, in the Wuhan metropolitan area. Historically Huangzhou, home of Li Shizhen and Bi Sheng; 2024 GDP 321.7 billion RMB; permanent population about 6.16 million, second in Hubei after Wuhan.
Huangshi
Huangshi (黄石) is a prefecture-level city in southeast Hubei, China, on the south bank of the Yangtze, bordering Wuhan; population 2,470,700, a former mining and metallurgy center, now a textile and clothing city and Wuhan-metropolitan sub-central city.
Jingling
Jingling (竟陵, later 景陵) is the ancient name of Tianmen, a city in central Hubei on the Jianghan Plain. A Qin county renamed twice under imperial naming taboos and finally to Tianmen in 1726, it was the home of tea sage Lu Yu and the Ming Jingling literary school.
Jingmen
Jingmen (荆门) is a prefecture-level city in central Hubei, China, first named in 634 and now a petrochemical and industrial hub on the Jianghan Plain.
Laohekou
Laohekou (老河口市), county-level city in northwest Hubei on the middle Han River under Xiangyang; named for the old river mouth, merged with Guanghua County in 1983, 2024 GDP 50.7 billion yuan.
Lengshuijiang
Lengshuijiang (冷水江市) is a county-level city in Loudi, Hunan, China, home to the Xikuangshan antimony deposit, the world's largest; a 1969-founded mining city designated resource-exhausted in 2009.
Loudi
Loudi (娄底市) is a prefecture-level city in central Hunan, China; 8,117 km², 3.68 million people (2025), GDP 223.73 billion CNY. Known as the world antimony capital and a steel city, with world-first antimony reserves and province-first coal reserves.
Macheng
Macheng (麻城市) is a county-level city in Huanggang, northeastern Hubei, at the Hubei-Henan-Anhui junction in the Dabie Mountains; founded 598 AD, city 1986; known for Guifengshan's 100,000-mu ancient azaleas (5A since 2024), Red Army heritage with 49 generals, and Huguang migration roots.
Qianjiang, Hubei
Qianjiang (潜江), Hubei, a province-directly-administered city on the Jianghan Plain: home of the Jianghan Oilfield, birthplace of China's rice-crayfish co-culture and the 'Hometown of Chinese Crawfish', and hometown of playwright Cao Yu; 2025 GDP 101.45 billion yuan.
Shaoyang
Shaoyang (邵阳), historically known as Baoqing (宝庆), is a prefecture-level city in Hunan Province, China, on the upper Zi River with over 2,500 years of urban history.
Suizhou
Suizhou (随州) is a prefecture-level city in northern Hubei, China, birthplace of the legendary Yandi (Shennong) and home of the Zeng Hou Yi bronze chime-bells, also known as China's special vehicle capital.
Wuxue
Wuxue (武穴), formerly Guangji County until 1987, is a county-level city on the north shore of the Yangtze River in eastern Hubei, China, under Huanggang.
Xiangtan
Xiangtan (湘潭市), a prefecture-level city in Hunan on the Xiang River, forms the Chang-Zhu-Tan region with Changsha and Zhuzhou; it administers Shaoshan, Mao Zedong's birthplace, and is a steel, electrical machinery, and education center.
Xiangxiang
Xiangxiang (湘乡市) is a county-level city in Xiangtan, Hunan, named from the Western Han Xiangxiang Marquisate (3 BC); a county from the Eastern Han, a city since 1987, home of Dongshan Academy and Zeng Guofan.
Xiangyang (city)
Xiangyang (襄阳), formerly named Xiangfan, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hubei Province, China, on the Han River, with a recorded history of more than 2,800 years.
Xianning
Xianning (咸宁) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Hubei, China, at the Hubei-Hunan-Jiangxi junction, known as Hubei's southern gate, for hot springs, osmanthus, and the Chibi battlefield; seat Xian'an District, GDP 194.5 billion yuan in 2024.
Xiantao (city)
Xiantao (仙桃), formerly Mianyang County, is a province-directly administered county-level city in Hubei's Jianghan Plain, established 1986; first Hubei 'hundred-billion-yuan county' (2022), known for nonwovens, swamp eels, and gymnastics.
Xiaogan (city)
Xiaogan (孝感市) is a prefecture-level city in central Hubei, China, bordering Wuhan; the only prefecture-level city named with the character for filial piety, renamed from Xiaochang in 924. Seven county-level divisions, 8,904 km², 4.15 million residents (2025), GDP 339.9 billion yuan.
Zhongxiang
Zhongxiang (钟祥市) is a county-level city in Jingmen, central Hubei, on the middle Han River. Birthplace of the Jiajing Emperor, home of the UNESCO-listed Xianling Mausoleum, and a phosphorus-chemical center with 2025 GDP of 682.69 billion yuan.
Zhuzhou (city)
Zhuzhou (株洲市), a prefecture-level city in eastern Hunan, China, core of the Chang-Zhu-Tan agglomeration and southern China's largest rail hub; one of eight First Five-Year Plan industrial cities, birthplace of China's first electric locomotive, aviation engine, air-to-air missile, and cemented carbide; 2025 GDP 406.35 billion yuan.