Xiangyang (chn)

Xiangyang

Xiangyang ranks 3,478th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind San Juan, Argentina, San Gabriel, California, and Mondragón. Memorable people born in Xiangyang include Pang Tong, Meng Haoran, and Wang Zongyuan. Memorable people who died in Xiangyang include Sun Jian, Ziying, and Liu Biao. Xiangyang has been the birth place of many politicians and writers and the death place of many military personnels and politicians. Xiangyang is located in China.

Xiangyang is the second-largest prefecture-level city by population in northwestern Hubei province, China. It was known as Xiangfan from 1950 to 2010. The Han River runs through Xiangyang's centre and divides the city north–south. The city itself is an agglomeration of two once separate cities: Fancheng and Xiangyang, and was known as Xiangfan before 2010. What remains of old Xiangyang is located south of the Han River and contains one of the oldest still-intact city walls in China, while Fancheng is located to the north of the Han River. Both cities served prominent historical roles in both ancient and pre-modern Chinese history. Today, the city has been a target of government and private investment as the country seeks to urbanize and develop the interior provinces. Its built-up area made up of 3 urban districts had 2,319,640 inhabitants at the 2020 census while the whole municipality contained approximately 5,260,951 people. Read more on Wikipedia