Huaihua

Huaihua 怀化市
Prefecture-level city
South Renmin Road (人民南路), Huaihua
Huaihua Location of the city centre in Hunan
Coordinates: 27°33′N 109°58′E / 27.550°N 109.967°E / 27.550; 109.967Coordinates: 27°33′N 109°58′E / 27.550°N 109.967°E / 27.550; 109.967
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hunan
Area
• Prefecture-level city	27,600 km2 (10,700 sq mi)
• Urban	32 km2 (12 sq mi)
Population
• Prefecture-level city	5,000,000
• Density	180/km2 (470/sq mi)
• Urban	370,000
• Urban density	12,000/km2 (30,000/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Website	http://www.huaihua.gov.cn/

Huaihua (simplified Chinese: 怀化市; traditional Chinese: 懷化市; pinyin: huái huà shì) is a prefecture-level city in the south western Hunan, China. it covers 27,564 km² (10,643 sq mi) and is bordered by Xiangxi to the northern west; Zhangjiajie, Changde to the north; Yiyang, Loudi and Shaoyang to the east; Guilin and Liuzhou of Guangxi to the south; Qiandongnan, Tongren of Guizhou to the southern west. It has 4,741,948 of population (2010 census), shares 7.22% of the province. According to 2010 Census, there are 2,909,574 Han Chinese, Han shares 61.4% of the population, 1,832,289 population of minorities, 38.6%; Dong, Miao, Tujia, Yao and Bai are major native minorities. Huaihua is the central region of Dong ethnic population, there lives 816,481 Dong people (2010 census), it shares 28.35 per centage of Chinese Dong ethnic group.

Huaihua is very mountainous, it is located between Wuyi and Xuefeng mountain ranges, Yuan river runs from the south to the north; the forest coverage reached 70.8% in 2015.