Zheng Prefecture

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Zheng Prefecture
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu PinyinZhèng Zhōu

Population
  740s or 750s367,881[1]
  1100s41,848[2]
History
  Preceded byXingyang Commandery
  Created
  Abolished1913 (Republic of China)
  Succeeded byZheng County
Contained within
  Circuit

Zhengzhou or Zheng Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Zhengzhou, Henan, China. It existed (intermittently) from 583 until 1913 after the foundation of the Republic.[3]

The modern prefecture-level city of Zhengzhou, created only in 1948, retains its name.

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