Sentence examples for a prefecture from inspiring English sources

The name Chao was first given to it as a prefecture in 591.

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.

In 621, under the Tang dynasty (618 907), a prefecture named Wuzhou was set up and seated there.

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.

It was promoted to a prefecture-level city in 1991.

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

Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan since 1954, forms a prefecture-level shi (municipality).

It received its new name, Meizhou, in 1988 and became a prefecture-level city.

The city is a prefecture-level municipality (shi) and the command headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.