Tongcheng County

Tongcheng County 通城县 Tungcheng
County
Tongcheng Location of the seat in Hubei
Coordinates: 29°14′43″N 113°49′01″E / 29.2453°N 113.8170°E / 29.2453; 113.8170Coordinates: 29°14′43″N 113°49′01″E / 29.2453°N 113.8170°E / 29.2453; 113.8170
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hubei
Prefecture-level city	Xianning
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.zgtc.gov.cn/zw/

Tongcheng (Chinese: 通城; pinyin: Tōngchéng) 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).

History[]

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.

Administration[]

Nine towns:^[1]

• (隽水镇), (麦市镇), (塘湖镇), (关刀镇), (沙堆镇), (五里镇), (石南镇), (北港镇), (马港镇)

Two townships:

• (四庄乡), (大坪乡)

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