Yue Prefecture (Hunan) should not be confused with Yue Prefecture (Zhejiang).
| Yue Prefecture | |||||||||
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| Preceded By: | Baling Commandery | ||||||||
| Populationfirst: | 50,298 | ||||||||
| Populationfirstyear: | 740s or 750s | ||||||||
| Populationsecond: | 128,450 | ||||||||
| Populationsecondyear: | 1100s | ||||||||
| Membership Title2: | Kingdom | ||||||||
| Membership2: | Chu (907–951) | ||||||||
Yuezhou or Yue Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern Hunan, China, centering on modern Yueyang.
Yue Prefecture administered the following counties (Chinese: 縣) through history:
| Sui dynasty | Tang dynasty | Chu | Song dynasty | Modern location | |||
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| 1 | Baling (Chinese: 巴陵) | Yueyang | |||||
| 2 | Huarong (Chinese: 華容) | Huarong County | |||||
| 3 | style=background:#00F000 | Changjiang (Chinese: 昌江) | Pingjiang (Chinese: 平江) | Pingjiang County | |||
| 4 | Linxiang, Hunan | ||||||
| 5 | Xiangyin (Chinese: 湘陰) | style=background:#00F000 | Xiangyin County | ||||
| 6 | Yuanjiang (Chinese: 沅江) | Qiaojiang | style=background:#00F000 | Yuanjiang | |||