Xuancheng () is a city in the southeast of Anhui province. Archeological digs suggest that the city has been settled for over 4,000 years, and has been under formal administration since the Qin dynasty. Located in the lower Yangtze River drainage basin and Yangtze River Delta, it borders Wuhu to the northwest, Chizhou to the west, Huangshan to the southwest, and the coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu to the southeast and northeast respectively.

History

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Archeological digs in Xuancheng have found pottery and stoneware indicative of the Liangzhu Culture. During the Danyang Commandery, Wanling (, presently Xuanzhou District, the site of the Xuancheng Municipal Government) served as the administrative center.

Administration

Xuancheng City administers seven county-level divisions, including one district, two county-level cities and five counties.

  • Xuanzhou District ()
  • Ningguo City ()
  • Guangde City ()
  • Langxi County ()
  • Jing County ()
  • Jixi County ()
  • Jingde County ()

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These are further divided into 115 township-level divisions, including 61 towns, 44 townships and ten subdistricts.

Language and culture

In Xuancheng, Jianghuai Mandarin and Wu Chinese are spoken as well as Standard Mandarin.

Xuancheng is a city with 2,000 years of history and cultural relics. It has a profound cultural heritage and rich tourism resources. There are many scenic areas, such as the Anhui Research Center for Chinese Alligator Reproduction (ARCCAR), which is a large captive breeding base for the endangered Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis). There are also four unique scenes – Taiji Cave, Peach Blossom Pool, Jing Ting Mountain, Zhangshan Canyon. Other attractions include cultural sites of the New Fourth Army, the Ancestral Hall of the Hu Family in Jixi (the former residence of Hu Shih), the Jiang's Village in Jingde, and so on. Since reform and opening up, the city has achieved a lot of progress and is accelerating the development of municipal services, transport, tourism and other infrastructural facilities. Xuancheng is a city with pleasant environments of living, enterprising, and sightseeing which is on the rise. The Ningguo Stadium is located in the city. The 12,000-capacity stadium is used mainly for association football matches.

Demographics

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Its population was 2,500,063 as of 2020 Chinese census whom 774,332 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Xuanzhou District.

The city is home to 45 ethnic minorities, whose population totals about 13,000 people. Xuancheng administers one ethnic township: . its inflation rate was 2.4%,