Jishou

Jishou is a county-degree metropolis and the seat of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan province, China. Located on the west of the province, the town is bordered to the northwest by way of Huayuan and Baojing Counties, to the northeast by means of Guzhang County, to the southeast via Luxi County, to the southwest with the aid of Fenghuang County. Jishou City covers 1,078.33 km2, as of 2015, It had a registered populace of 301,000 and a resident population of 286,400. Jishou has four subdistricts, five towns and a township under its jurisdiction, the seat of the metropolis is Qianzhou Subdistrict. Jishou has a history of greater than 2,000 years courting back to the Qin dynasty.

In the ones days, it become affiliated with Qianzhong Prefecture. During the Song dynasty, a metropolis government become mounted in a stockaded village, Zhenxi, which inside the Ming dynasty became the Zhenxi squaddies and civilians battalion. Qianzhou Prefecture changed into created all through the Qing dynasty. During the Republic of China technology it became called Qian County In 1953 the vicinity become renamed Jishou county, with two adjacent cities, Jishou and Qianzhou. In 1982 Jishou metropolis have become the capital of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. The town of Qianzhou now lies simply south of Jishou metropolis.