Chaohu

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巢湖市
Cháohú Shì

Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
City Seat	Juchao District (}; }) is a prefecture-level city in central Anhui province, People's Republic of China. Embracing the Chaohu Lake, from which the city was named, Chaohu borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the northwest, Lu'an to the west, Anqing to the southwest, Tongling to the south, Wuhu to the southeast, and Ma'anshan and the province of Jiangsu to the east. Administration The prefecture-level city of Chaohu administers 5 county-level divisions, including 1 districts and 4 counties. Juchao District (居巢区) Lujiang County (庐江县) Wuwei County (无为县) He County (和县) Hanshan County (含山县) Notable people Zhou Yu (175 - 210), Three Kingdoms era military general of the Kingdom of Wu Ding Ruchang (1836 - 1895), Qing Dynasty naval commander and captain of battleship Dingyuan Feng Yuxiang, warlord in the Republican Era Xu Haifeng (b. 1957), first Chinese gold medalist for Men's 50 m Pistol in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, USA External links [Government website of Chaohu] (available in Chinese and English) Prefecture-level divisions of Anhui '''Prefecture-level cities: Anqing | Bengbu | Bozhou | Chaohu | Chizhou | Chuzhou | Fuyang | Hefei Huaibei | Huainan | Huangshan | Lu'an | Ma'anshan | Suzhou | Tongling | Wuhu | Xuancheng List of Anhui County-level divisions   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: