Hua Prefecture (Guangdong)

Hua Prefecture (化州)

Population
 • 1070s or 1080sUnknown, 9,373 households[1]
History
 • Preceded byBian Prefecture (辯州)
 • Created980 (Song dynasty)
 • Abolished1912 (R.O. China)
 • Succeeded byHua County, Guangdong
Contained within
 • Circuit
Hua Prefecture
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuà Zhōu

Huazhou or Hua Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern southwestern Guangdong, China. It existed from 980 to 1912.[2]

The modern county-level city Huazhou, Guangdong retains its name.

  1. ^ Song Shi, ch. 90.
  2. ^ Shi, p. 445.

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