Southern Shaanxi · Prefecture-level city

Hanzhong汉中市

Hanzhong is a basin held between the Qinling and the Ba Mountains, with the Han River running west to east. The wet climate supports rice paddies, rapeseed fields and tea gardens.

English summary

Region: Southern Shaanxi
Divisions: 11
Centre point: 33.0882°N · 107.1083°E
Measured area: 26,980 km²
East–west span: 260.3 km
North–south span: 192.5 km

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At a glance

Hanzhong governs 11 county-level divisions: 2 districts and 9 counties.

Together they measure about 26,980 km², 13.2% of the province's measured area, ranking 3 of the ten cities by measured area.

The city runs about 260.3 km east to west and 192.5 km north to south, and its area-weighted centre sits near 33.0882°N · 107.1083°E.

Every figure here is aggregated from the 107 county pages on this site with the same boundary measurements. None of it is taken from an official statistical yearbook.

The divisions

Listed by administrative code — the same order as the Chinese edition. Each name opens its English county page.

Largest by measured area: Zhenba County. Smallest by measured area: Hantai District.

Four seasons

One original illustration drawn four ways, in this city's palette. The vectors open at full size; the raster files are 1280×720 WebP.

Hanzhong in Spring, original illustration — **Spring** · Rapeseed runs from the valley floors up to the foot of the slopes, tea buds open around Qingming, and the rivers rise quickly after rain. · Vector version

Hanzhong in Summer, original illustration — **Summer** · The paddies are flooded, cloud rises out of the mountains most afternoons, and the valleys are muggy while higher ground stays cool. · Vector version

Hanzhong in Autumn, original illustration — **Autumn** · Rice, citrus and kiwifruit ripen in sequence; the hills stay green while the water clears. · Vector version

Hanzhong in Winter, original illustration — **Winter** · Damp and cold, often foggy. Evergreens hold the green, and thin snow occasionally settles in the valleys. · Vector version

These are editorial illustrations, not photographs and not maps: they suggest the season and the landscape, and carry no survey data.

Field photographs

5 of this city's 11 county-level divisions have a field photograph on the site — one each, all from Wikimedia Commons. Each picture opens the English county page for that division.

Photograph coverage of Hanzhong: 5 of 11 divisions have one, numbered to match the list beside the map — Photograph coverage · figure labels in Chinese · Vector version

Field photograph taken in Chenggu County, Shaanxi — Chenggu County · 漢浩 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Yang County, Shaanxi — Yang County · Laopashu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Xixiang County, Shaanxi — Xixiang County · Zhangzun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Ningqiang County, Shaanxi — Ningqiang County · Liuxingy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Lueyang County, Shaanxi — Lueyang County · TowerCard · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

These are third-party photographs used under the licences named on each one, not maps and not this site's own illustrations; the numbered dots mark a measured centre point inside each division, not the place the camera stood.

Where it sits

Location of Hanzhong in Shaanxi: its 11 divisions highlighted on the provincial outline — Shaanxi · this city's divisions highlighted · figure labels in Chinese · Vector version

The locator draws all 107 divisions of the province and shades the ones belonging to this city, so the city reads as a piece of the whole rather than as a standalone shape.

Seal-style graphic for Hanzhong — City seal · graphic device, not an official emblem

Borders inside and outside the city

Under this site's adjacency test, the 11 divisions of this city share 19 borders with one another, and 7 cross-city borders connect them to 3 other cities.

Borders between divisions: 19; Pairs of divisions of this city that share a boundary.
Neighbouring cities: 3; Xi'an, Baoji and Ankang
Cross-city borders: 7; Borders where the other side belongs to a different city.

Source and confidence

Names, types and parent city: Not individually checked
Area, spans, centre and borders: Measured
Summary, seasonal notes, illustrations and palette: Editorial work

Boundary, area and centre: DataV.GeoAtlas, measured on simplified geometry. Not an official statistic.

Name, type and parent city: DataV.GeoAtlas attributes, not individually checked.

Updated 2026-11-03

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