| Zheng Prefecture | |||||||||
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| Map: | 260px | ||||||||
| Preceded By: | Xingyang Commandery | ||||||||
| End: | 1913 (Republic of China) | ||||||||
| Replace: | Zheng County | ||||||||
| Populationfirst: | 367,881 | ||||||||
| Populationfirstyear: | 740s or 750s | ||||||||
| Populationsecond: | 41,848 | ||||||||
| Populationsecondyear: | 1100s | ||||||||
| Membership Title1: | Circuit | ||||||||
Zhengzhou or Zheng Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Zhengzhou, Henan, China. It existed (intermittently) from 583 until 1913 after the foundation of the Republic.
The modern prefecture-level city of Zhengzhou, created only in 1948, retains its name.
Zheng Prefecture administered the following counties (Chinese: 縣) for the most part of history:
| Sui dynasty | Tang dynasty and after | Modern location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guancheng (Chinese: 管城) | Zhengzhou | ||
| 2 | Xingze (Chinese: 滎澤) | |||
| 3 | Xinzheng (Chinese: 新鄭) | Xinzheng | ||
| 4 | Xingyang (Chinese: 滎陽) | Xingyang | ||
| 5 | Yuanling (Chinese: 原陵) | Yuanwu (Chinese: 原武) | Yuanyang County, Henan | |
Two other counties, Yangwu (Chinese: 陽武) and Zhongmu (Chinese: 中牟) were part of Zheng Prefecture during the Tang dynasty, but after Later Liang (except briefly during Later Tang) they were administered by Kaifeng Prefecture.