Jingmen is a prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city

A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

 in Hubei

Hubei

' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...

 province of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. Jingmen is within an area where cotton and oil crops are planted. The population of the city is approximately 2,984,000 (prefecture-level population). The urban area of Jingmen City has a population of about 350,000. Jingmen is so named as in ancient times it was the gateway to Jingzhou

Jingzhou

Jingzhou is a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China. The city is located on the banks of the Yangtze River.Its population is 5,691,707 at the 2010 census whom 1,154,086 in the built up area made of 3 urban districts.-Geography:Jingzhou occupies an area of...

, one of the Nine Provinces and means literally Gateway to Jingzhou.
Jingmen municipality comprises two districts, one county-level city and two counties :

• Dongbao District
  Dongbao District
  Dongbao District is a district of Hubei, China. It is under the administration of Jingmen city....
  
   (东宝区)
• Duodao District
  Duodao District
  Duodao District is a district of Hubei, China. It is under the administration of Jingmen city....
  
    (掇刀区)
• Zhongxiang
  Zhongxiang
  Zhongxiang is a county-level city of Jingmen, central Hubei province, Central China. Zhongxiang means "Blessed with propitious omen", which was gifted by Emperor Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty. Zhongxiang is a well-known historical and cultural city in China....
  
   City (钟祥市)
• Shayang County
  Shayang County
  Shayang County is a county west-central Hubei province in central China. Administratively, it is within the prefecture-level city of Jingmen. The county is located south of the Jingmen city proper, west of the Han River, and north of the Chang Lake .The county seat is a town of the same name ,...
  
   (沙洋县)
• Jingshan County (京山县)

Dongbao District is located about four hours away from Wuhan

Wuhan

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, and is the most populous city in Central China. It lies at the east of the Jianghan Plain, and the intersection of the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han rivers...

 by bus, and about three hours by rail.