Hua Prefecture (Guangdong)

Hua Prefecture (化州)

Population
  1070s or 1080sUnknown, 9,373 households
History
  Preceded byBian Prefecture (辯州)
  Created980 (Song dynasty)
  Abolished1912 (R.O. China)
  Succeeded byHua County, Guangdong
Contained within
  Circuit
Hua Prefecture
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuà Zhōu

Huazhou or Hua Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern southwestern Guangdong, China. It existed from 980 to 1912.

The modern county-level city Huazhou, Guangdong retains its name.