page_title: Yueyang
section_title: Administration
hierarchical_section_title: Yueyang / Administration
caption_attribution_description: division of Yueyang；湖南省岳阳市行政区划
context_page_description: Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Yochow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China.
  Yueyang has an administrative area of 14,896 km² and the city proper, 304 km². The population was 5,477,911 at the 2010 census whom 991,465 lived in the built-up area made up of Yueyanglou District, Yunxi District and Junshan District. Yueyang is the only international trade port city in Hunan and a famous port city in China, at the same time, Yueyang's comprehensive economic strength ranks second only to Changsha, the provincial capital.
  The city's most famous attractions are the Yueyang Tower and Dongting Lake. The most famous food is Dongting lake silver fish.
  In 2017, the city's permanent resident population was 573,330, an increase of 52,200 from the end of last year. The urban resident population was 3.2798 million, accounting for 57.21% of the total population.
context_section_description: The Yueyang prefecture is made up of six outlying districts, two special districts and the city proper. The six city districts are Huarong, Linxiang, Xiangyin, Pingjiang, Miluo and Yueyang County. The two special (smaller) districts are Junshan and Yunxi, which used to be part of Yueyang city proper but were separated into their own special districts for administrative purposes.
  Yueyanglou District (岳阳楼区)
  Junshan District (君山区)
  Yunxi District (云溪区)
  Miluo City (汨罗市)
  Linxiang City (临湘市)
  Yueyang County (岳阳县)
  Huarong County (华容县)
  Xiangyin County (湘阴县)
  Pingjiang County (平江县)
caption: Administrative divisions of Yueyang
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