Guāng Prefecture

Guāng Prefecture
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGuāngzhōu
Wade–GilesKuang1-chou1

Guang Prefecture (光州) was a prefecture of imperial China centered on modern Huangchuan County, Henan. It was created in the 6th century under the Liang dynasty and existed intermittently until 1913, after the establishment of the Republic.