Xuanhan County (simplified Chinese: 宣汉县; traditional Chinese: 宣漢縣; pinyin: Xuānhàn Xiàn) is a county in the northeast of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Chongqing to the east.
[1] The town of Xuanhan is located in the valley of a river called Zhouhe.
Because of its location in the loop of the river the town of Xuanhan is quite oblong.
Xuanhan County was called Dongxiang County (simplified Chinese: 东乡县; traditional Chinese: 東鄉縣) from the 8th year of the Emperor He of Han (Yongyuan era, A.D. 96) until 1913.
Xuanhan County comprises 2 subdistricts, 28 towns, 3 townships and 4 ethnic townships:[2] It will be served by Xuanhan South railway station and Fankuai railway station on Chongqing–Xi'an high-speed railway in the future.