Yulin Prefecture

{{Short description|Historical administrative division in Guangxi, China}}

{{infobox historic subdivision

|Name=Yulin Prefecture (鬱林州)

|AltName=Yulin Commandery (鬱林郡)

|Map=

|preceded_by=Yu Prefecture (鬱州)

|Start=666 (Tang dynasty)

|End=1912 (R.O. China)

|Replace=Yulin County

|PopulationFirst=9,699{{harvnb|Xin Tang Shu|loc=[https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/新唐書/卷043上 ch. 43.]}}

|PopulationFirstYear=740s or 750s

|PopulationSecond=Unknown, 3,564 households{{harvnb|Song Shi|loc=[http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/宋史/卷090 ch. 90.]}}

|PopulationSecondYear=1070s or 1080s

|membership_title1=Circuit

|membership1={{Unbulleted list|Tang dynasty:|Lingnan Circuit|Song dynasty:|Guangnan Circuit|Guangnan West Circuit}}

}}

{{Chinese|t={{linktext|鬱|林|州}}|s={{linktext|郁|林|州}}|p=Yùlín Zhōu|altname=Yulin Commandery|t2={{linktext|鬱|林|郡}}|s2={{linktext|郁|林|郡}}|p2=Yùlín Jùn}}

Yulinzhou or Yulin Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern southern Guangxi, China. It existed from 666 to 1912, and between 742 and 758 it was known as Yulin Commandery.{{harvnb|Shi|loc=p. 1504.}}