| Jia Prefecture | |||||||||
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| Map: | 260px | ||||||||
| End: | 1196 (Song dynasty) | ||||||||
| Replace: | Jiading Prefecture | ||||||||
| Populationfirst: | 99,591 | ||||||||
| Populationfirstyear: | 740s or 750s | ||||||||
| Populationsecond: | 210,472 | ||||||||
| Populationsecondyear: | 1100s | ||||||||
| Membership Title1: | Circuit | ||||||||
Jiazhou or Jia Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China seated in modern Leshan, Sichuan, China. It existed (intermittently) from the 6th century to 1196. Between 742 and 758 (during the Tang dynasty) it was known as Qianwei Commandery (犍為郡).
The administrative region of Jiazhou in the Tang dynasty is under the administration of modern Leshan in southeastern Sichuan: