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Prefecture-level city in Anhui, People's Republic of China

Lu’an

Lu'an is a prefecture-level city in western Anhui province, People's Republic of China, bordering Henan to the northwest and Hubei to the southwest.

Lu’an
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The place

Lu'an is a prefecture-level city in western Anhui province, People's Republic of China, bordering Henan to the northwest and Hubei to the southwest. As of the 2020 census, it had a total population of 4,393,699 inhabitants whom 1,752,537 lived in the built-up area made of Yu'an and Jin'an urban districts. Neighbouring prefecture-level cities are the provincial capital of Hefei to the east, Anqing to the south, Huanggang (Hubei) and Xinyang (Henan) to the west, and Huainan and Fuyang to the north. Although the character 六 is normally pronounced "Liù", in this case it changes to "Lù" on account of the historical literary reading.

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Getting to Lu’an

Airports
Hefei Xinqiao (HFE), 51 km · Ezhou Huahu (EHU), 210 km · Nanjing Lukou (NKG), 222 km
Stations
Lu'an Railway Station, 3.1 km
  • Hefei → Lu’an
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · ¥30–39
  • Ezhou → Lu’an
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · ¥115–150
  • Nanjing → Lu’an
    216 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · ¥95–125
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lu’an

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lu’an. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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