Tongcheng County | |
Other Name: | Tungcheng |
Settlement Type: | County |
Pushpin Map: | China Hubei |
Pushpin Label: | Tongcheng |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the seat in Hubei |
Coordinates: | 29.2453°N 113.817°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Hubei |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
Subdivision Name2: | Xianning |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | China Standard |
Utc Offset1: | +8 |
Tongcheng is the governmental seat and the name of a county in Xianning City, Hubei, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Jiangxi (to the east) and Hunan (to the south and west).
The Red 16th Army, stationed at the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet annihilated an entire regiment of the Guomindang/Nationalist army here in December 1930, disrupting its planned siege of the Red base.
Nine towns:[1]
Two townships: