Yue Prefecture (Zhejiang) should not be confused with Yue Prefecture (Hunan).
| Yue Prefecture | |||||||||
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| Map: | 260px | ||||||||
| Preceded By: | Kuaiji Commandery | ||||||||
| End: | 1131 (Song dynasty) | ||||||||
| Replace: | Shaoxing Prefecture | ||||||||
| Populationfirst: | 529,589 | ||||||||
| Populationfirstyear: | 740s or 750s | ||||||||
| Populationsecond: | 367,390 | ||||||||
| Populationsecondyear: | 1100s | ||||||||
| Membership Title1: | Circuit | ||||||||
| Membership Title2: | Kingdom | ||||||||
| Membership2: | Wuyue (907–978) | ||||||||
| Membership Title3: | Circuit | ||||||||
Yuezhou or Yue Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern Zhejiang, China, centering on modern Shaoxing. It existed (intermittently) from 605 until 1131, when it became Shaoxing Prefecture.
Yue Prefecture administered the following counties (縣) through history:
| Sui dynasty | Tang dynasty | Wuyue | Song dynasty | Modern location | ||
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| 1 | Kuaiji (會稽) | Yuecheng District & Keqiao District, Shaoxing | ||||
| 2 | Shanyin (山陰) | |||||
| 3 | Shangyu (上虞) | Shangyu District, Shaoxing | ||||
| 4 | Zhuji (諸暨) | Zhuji | Zhuji | |||
| 5 | Shan (剡) | Shan (贍) | Shengzhou | |||
| 6 | Xinchang (新昌) | Xinchang County | ||||
| 7 | Yuyao (餘姚) | Yuyao | ||||
| 8 | Xiaoshan (蕭山) | Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou | ||||