2. The total area is 29 16 square kilometers. It borders Huoqiu County of Anhui Province in the east, Funan County of Anhui Province across the Huaihe River in the north, Huaibin, Huangchuan and Shangcheng County in the northwest, Huangchuan and Southwest respectively, Jinzhai County of Anhui Province in the south and Yeji District of Lu 'an City of Anhui Province in the southeast. It is one of the nine Soviet counties in Henan Province, and it is also one of the birthplaces of the Red Fourth Army, the Red 25th Army and the Red 28th Army.
3. Gushi is one of the "Top Ten Strong Cultural Counties in Henan Province" because of its prosperous writing style and profound historical and cultural accumulation since ancient times. The calligraphy troupe has attracted much attention from the calligraphy circles at home and abroad, and was named "the hometown of calligraphy in China" by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Calligraphy Association.