Jingnan
Jingnan (荊南) is a historical geographic and administrative designation in ancient China, most commonly associated with the Jingnan Commandery. Located in the Yangtze River basin, Jingnan covered parts of what are now southern Hubei and northern Hunan. The commandery was created as part of the expansion of the Han-era provincial system and served as a frontier zone linking the central plains with the southern lands.
Over the centuries its jurisdiction and borders shifted under successive dynasties, with its administration centered on
In classical geographies, Jingnan is also used more broadly to refer to the southern Jingzhou region—the lands
Today the term Jingnan appears primarily in scholarly discourse on ancient China, regional histories of the