page_title: Hanzhong
section_title: Cityscape
hierarchical_section_title: Hanzhong / Geography / Cityscape
caption_attribution_description: English: The north panorama of Hanzhong,Shannxi,China. 中文（中国大陆）‎: 汉中北部全景图，摄于2009年3月。
context_page_description: Hanzhong, is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Shaanxi province, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the south and Gansu to the west.
  The founder of the Han dynasty, Liu Bang, was once enfeoffed as the king of the Hanzhong region after overthrowing the Qin dynasty. During the Chu-Han contention, Liu Bang shortened his title to the King of Han, and later used it as the name of his imperial dynasty. In this way, Hanzhong was responsible for the naming of the Han dynasty, which was later hailed as the first golden age in Chinese history and lends its name to the principal ethnic group in China.
  Hanzhong is located at the modern headwater of the Han River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River. Hanzhong city covers 27,246 square kilometres and is centered around the Hantai District. The prefecture-level city consists of two urban district and nine rural counties. In 2013, the population was approximately 3.84 million. The local dialect of Hanzhong is the Chengdu-Chongqing dialect of Southwestern Mandarin.
caption: Panorama of northern Hanzhong.
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