Luoyang

Luoyang is the city located in a confluence area of Luo River in addition to Yellow River in the west of Henan province. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyang to the south, Sanmenxia to the west, Jiyuan to the north, in addition to Jiaozuo to the northeast. As of December 31, 2018, Luoyang had a population of 6,888,500 inhabitants with 2,751,400 people alive in the built-up or metro area proposed of the city's five out of six urban districts apart from the Jili District non continuously urbanized and Yanshi District, now being conurbated.

Situated on the oldest cities in China and one of the cradles of Chinese civilization. it is also one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China and the earliest of the four.

Names

The form "Luoyang" originates from the city's location on the north or sunny "yang" side of the lit. 'capital Luo'. During the dominance of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history, the city was required as Shendu 神都; 'divine capital'. Luoyang was renamed Henanfu 河南府 during the Qing dynasty but regained its former gain in 1912.