Gushi County

Gushi (Chinese: 固始; pinyin: Gùshǐ) is a county of 1,023,857 people directly governed by Henan, People's Republic of China. It is administered by the prefecture-level city of Xinyang. With a total area of 2942.97 square kilometers and a registered population of 1,781,500 at the end of 2018, it is the county with the largest registered population in Henan. Gushi has 3 subdistricts, 17 towns and 13 townships. Gushi County was the capital of one of the two States of Liao during the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history (771–436 BCE). Gushi is the most-populous county in the Henan Province, with an estimated record high of 1,734,100 citizens with registration as of 2013, according to the 2013 annual statistics report. As of the sixth national census in 2010, there are 1,023,857 residents living inside the county, showing that nearly half of the population moved out of the county without changing their residents registration status. In 2010, the county had a population density of 348 people per square kilometer (900 people/mi). The Nanjing–Xi'an Railway along as G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway passing through the southern side of Gushi from the east to the west, connect the county with Xinyang and Hefei. A branch line, S39 Huaibin-Gushi Expressway links the county seat to the national expressway network from north to south.