Tieshan District
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Tieshan District is a district
within the prefecture-level city
of Huangshi
in China's Hubei province. Small in area (28.7 km2), it is squeezed between the "county-level city
" Daye
to the south and west, Huangshi's Xialu District
to the east, and the prefecture-level city
of Ezhou
to the north. Physically, it is a small mining town.
As the town's name indicates ("Tieshan" means "Iron Mountain"), the town owes its existence to iron-ore mines.
The town is served by China National Highway 106
, which also doubles as China National Highway 316
in this part of Hubei.
District (China)
The term district, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China....
within the 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...
of Huangshi
Huangshi
Huangshi is a prefecture-level city in China's Hubei province.-Geography and climate:The prefecture-level city of Huangshi is located in southeastern Hubei province, along the southwestern bank of one of the major bends in the Yangtze River. It is located 100 km south-east of Wuhan, and...
in China's Hubei province. Small in area (28.7 km2), it is squeezed between the "county-level city
County-level city
A county-level city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions....
" Daye
Daye
Daye is a city of eastern Hubei province, Central China. Administratively, it is a county-level city of Huangshi City.Before the adoption of the Hanyu Pinyin, the name of the city was often transcribed in English as Tayeh....
to the south and west, Huangshi's Xialu District
Xialu District
Xialu District is an administrative district in the prefecture-level city of Huangshi, in the Hubei Province of China. It is a fairly small industrial and residential district, located to the west of Huangshi's downtown Huangshigang District....
to the east, and the 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...
of Ezhou
Ezhou
-Geography and climate:Ezhou is located in southeastern Hubei province, on the southern bank of the Yangtze River east of Wuchang , and across the river from the city of Huanggang, to which it is connected by the Ehuang Bridge...
to the north. Physically, it is a small mining town.
As the town's name indicates ("Tieshan" means "Iron Mountain"), the town owes its existence to iron-ore mines.
The town is served by China National Highway 106
China National Highway 106
China National Highway 106 is a road from Beijing to Guangzhou.It leaves Beijing at Yuquanying and heads to Gu'an, Bazhou , Kaifeng , Ezhou , and eventually Guangzhou on the south China coast....
, which also doubles as China National Highway 316
China National Highway 316
China National Highway 316 runs from Fuzhou in Fujian to Lanzhou in Gansu, via Nanchang and Wuhan . It is 2915 kilometres in length...
in this part of Hubei.