Which city does Gushi in Henan belong to?

Gushi County, directly under the jurisdiction of Henan Province, is managed by Xinyang City. It is located at the southeast end of Henan Province, at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces, with Dabie Mountain in the south and Huaihe River in the north, with a total area of 2,946 square kilometers.

Due to four large-scale population migrations to the south in history, Gushi County has become the birthplace and concentrated place of Central Plains immigrants to Fujian and Taiwan, and is known as "the hometown of Tang people, the ancestral land of Fujian and Taiwan" and "the first hometown of overseas Chinese in Central Plains". Wang in the early Tang Dynasty, Min Wang in the late Tang Dynasty, national heroes, patriotic overseas Chinese Shi Lang and other sages and celebrities all came from Gushi. It is one of the five regional central cities and ten pilot counties for the reform of provincial management system in Henan Province.

Extended data

Gushi County is located at the southeast end of Henan Province, at the junction of Henan and Anhui, with Dabie Mountain in the south and Huaihe River in the north, which belongs to the blending zone of East China and Central Plains. Gushi County borders Huoqiu County in Anhui Province in the east, Funan County in Anhui Province across the Huaihe River in the north, Huaibin County, Huangchuan County and Shangcheng County in the northwest, west and southwest, Jinzhai County in Anhui Province in the south and Yeji District in Lu 'an City in Anhui Province in the southeast corner. It is bounded by east longitude11521'-1556' and north latitude 3 1 46'-32 35'. The longest from north to south is 94. 16 km, and the widest from east to west is 56. 19 km, with a total area of 2,946 square kilometers.

The land in Gushi County consists of mountains, hills and plains. The mountainous area is 267.4 square kilometers (including east 12.5 square kilometers), accounting for 9.2% of the total area of the county, mainly distributed in the southern edge of the county, and the soil is mainly yellow brown soil and paddy soil; Hilly area 1270 square kilometers, accounting for 43.6% of the county's total area, mainly distributed in the north of Xinye Highway and the east and west hills of the county. The soil is mostly paddy soil and yellow brown soil; Plain area 1378.3 square kilometers, accounting for 47.2% of the county's total area. Mainly distributed along the Huaihe River, Shihe River, Shiguan River, Guanhe River and Quanhe River. The soils are mainly paddy soil, fluvo-aquic soil and black soil in Jiang Sha.