Honghu
Honghu
洪湖市 | |
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Xintan, one of the towns of Honghu City, seen from a Yangtze levee | |
| Coordinates: 29°49′37″N 113°28′34″E / 29.827°N 113.476°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hubei |
| Prefecture-level city | Jingzhou |
| Area | |
| • Urban | 41.40 km2 (15.98 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| 698,188 | |
| • Urban | 304,073 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
Honghu (Chinese: 洪湖市; pinyin: Hónghú Shì) is a county-level city in the municipal region of Jingzhou, in the central south of Hubei province. The city lies on the northwest (left) bank of the Yangtze River, across from Hunan Province and Xianning, Hubei. It is named after the adjacent Hong Lake.
As of 2000, Honghu City had a population of 335,618 or more people.