He County
subdivision of Chaohu city, Anhui province, China
He County or Hexian (simplified Chinese: 和县; traditional Chinese: 和縣; pinyin: Hé Xiàn) is a county in the east of Anhui Province, China, under the jurisdiction of Ma'anshan. It has a population of 650,000 and an area of 1,412 square kilometres (545 mi2). The government of He County is located in Liyang Town.
History
From 1965 to 2011, He County was under the jurisdiction of Chaohu. On August 22, 2011, the Anhui provincial government reorganized the province and split Chaohu into three parts that were absorbed by neighboring prefecture-level cities.
Geography
He County is located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River. He County borders Chuzhou to the northwest, Nanjing to the northeast, the three urban districts of Ma'anshan to the east, Wuhu to the south, and Hanshan County to the west.
He County has a total area of 1318.6 square kilometers (509 sq mi), of which 48% is arable land. He County is situated on the Yangtze Plain and has relatively flat terrain in the southeast, with ponds dotting the alluvial plains, with the northwest of the county consisting of rolling hills.
Climate
Administrative divisions
He County has jurisdiction to 9 towns.
“He County” enters the record as subdivision of Chaohu city, Anhui province, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what County, subdivision and Chaohu can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“He County” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, County, subdivision and Chaohu provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1204146. VIAF identifies the subject as 133671853. The Library of Congress control number is n78072389. Authority coordinates are 31.733, 118.300. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 2011 and 1318.
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This entry incorporates text from “He County” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.