Lianhua County

Lianhua County
莲花县
County

Lianhua is the southernmost division in this map of Pingxiang

Pingxiang in Jiangxi
Coordinates: 27°07′40″N 113°57′41″E / 27.1277°N 113.9615°E / 27.1277; 113.9615Coordinates: 27°07′40″N 113°57′41″E / 27.1277°N 113.9615°E / 27.1277; 113.9615
Country People's Republic of China
Province Jiangxi
Prefecture-level city Pingxiang
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)

Lianhua County (simplified Chinese: 莲花县; traditional Chinese: 蓮花縣; pinyin: Liánhuā Xiàn) is a county in the west of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Hunan province to the west. It is the southernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Pingxiang.

Geography

Lianhua lies in the Luoxiao Mountains, somewhat north of Jinggangshan.

Revolutionary History

Hard on the Hunan border, Lianhua was the headquarters of the (South-)Eastern Hunan Red Army Independent Division, and thus the administrative centre for the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet, a constituent part of the Chinese Soviet Republic of the early 1930s.

Climate

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