Xiangfan

Japanese: 襄樊 - じょうはん

The former name of Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei Province, China. Located at the confluence of the Han River and Baihe River, it is a merged city of the old Xiangyang on the south bank of the Han River and Fancheng on the north bank. It is located along the Han-Dan Railway (Hanxi to Danjiangkou), and small steamships run from Wuhan. It has been a strategic military and transportation location since ancient times, and is also the site of an ancient battle between the Southern Song army and the Mongol army. It is a distribution center for products from the upper reaches of the Han River. The population of Xiangyang City is 2.26 million (2014).

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Japanese:

中国，湖北省北西部の襄陽市の旧地名。漢水と白河の合流点にあり，漢水南岸の旧襄陽と北岸の樊城との合併都市。漢丹鉄路（漢西〜丹江口）に沿い，武漢から小汽船が運航する。古来軍事・交通の要地で，南宋軍とモンゴル軍が戦った古戦場でもある。漢水上流の物産の集散地。襄陽市の人口は226万人（2014）。

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