Nanchong

Nanchong is a prefecture-stage metropolis within the northeast of Sichuan province, China, with a place of 12,479.96 square kilometres. At the 2010 census it become domestic to 6,278,614 human beings, of whom 1,858,875 lived inside the built-up location manufactured from 3 city districts. It is the second most populated city of Sichuan Province, after Chengdu. The administrative center is Shunqing District. Nanchong changed into in the territory of the nation of Ba before it turned into conquered by way of the Qin dynasty in 314 BC.

The Qin set up a central authority at Langzhong City. Anhan City became mounted in Shunqinq district at the start of the Han Dynasty. In 202 BC, Emperor Gaozu of Han instituted the Anhan County on this area. Anhan literally method "to set up or stabilize Han". In 8 AD, the call was modified to Anxin when Wang Mang seized the throne of the Han Dynasty, but it reverted to Anhan in 25 AD. It turned into again modified to Guozhou in 621 AD, and then to Nanchong in 742 AD. The nickname of Nanchong is Guocheng, derived from Guozhou.