Map including Yicheng (TZU-CHUNG (I-CH'ENG) 自忠 (宜城)) (AMS, 1954)
In 1945, in order to commemorate the anti-Japanese generals Zhang Zizhong in the Battle of Zaoyi, renamed Zizhong County, belonged to the Office of the Administrative Inspector of the Fifth District of Hubei Province. After December 1947, the area east of Hanshui was under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Communist Party (liberated zone). After July 1948, the west of Hanshui was under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1949, Yicheng County was restored and it was subordinated to the Commissioner of the Xiangyang Administrative Region of Hubei Province.
In June 1994, Yicheng County was cancelled and Yicheng City was established with the approval of the State Council.[1]
Geography
Yicheng City is located in the northwest of Hubei Province, Hanjiang midstream. East boundary Suizhou, Zaoyang, south Zhongxiang, Jingmen, west Nanjing, north to Xiangyang. It is located at 111°57′-112°45′ east longitude and 31°26′-31°54′ north latitude. It is 76 kilometers long from east to west and 53 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 2115 square kilometers.
Climate
Climate data for Yicheng (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
At the end of 2006, the city's total population was 564,500, of which the urban population was 226,600, the rural population was 335,900, the annual birth population was 4,770, the birth rate was 8.45 ‰; the death toll was 3,278, the mortality rate was 5.81 ‰; the natural growth rate was 2.64 ‰.
^ abcd宜城市历史沿革 [Yicheng City Historical Development] (in Simplified Chinese). XZQH.org. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2018. 1994年6月10日，民政部批复（民行批[1994]93号）撤销宜城县，设立宜城市（县级），以原宜城县行政区域为宜城市行政区域。{...}1995年，宜城市面积2115平方千米，{...}2010年第六次人口普查，宜城市常住总人口其中：512530人，鄢城街道133877人，南营街道42060人，郑集镇69169人，小河镇50922人，刘猴镇31807人，孔湾镇19514人，流水镇49832人，板桥镇40391人，王集镇34258人，雷河镇36498人，大雁工业园区4202人。
