Sentence examples for A prefecture from inspiring English sources

A prefecture named Hangzhou was created there in 589, during the Sui dynasty (581 618), which is the source of the city's name.

Fukui is a prefecture divided.

Historic landmarks include the Church of the Holy Saviour and a prefecture on the Place d'Armes.

She later became the deputy governor of a prefecture and then the first woman to serve as a consul general.

But he goes alone to the mountains of Niigata, a prefecture north of Tokyo famous for its koi.

The group then travelled to the southern province Guangdong, and after another failed border crossing, moved on to Honghe, a prefecture in Yunnan that borders Vietnam.

The status of Guangzhou was changed in 1954 from a centrally administered municipality (tebieshi) to a prefecture-level municipality (dijishi) under the jurisdiction of the provincial government.

Ordos Municipality is a prefecture-level city in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Marrakesh, the regional capital, constitutes a prefecture-level administrative unit of Morocco, divided into Marrakesh-Medina, Marrakesh-Menara and Sidi Youssef Ben Ali, which form part of the region of Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz along with Al Haouz Province, Chichaoua Province, El Kelâat Es-Sraghna Province, and Essaouira Province.

Rizhao is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Shandong Province.

In the Ninohe and Ishikawa PHC areas, a prefecture-wide cancer registry was available (i.e. Iwate and Okinawa Prefecture cancer registry, respectively).