Sansui County () is a county in eastern

Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...

province, China, bordering

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

province to the east. It is under the administration of the

Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (; Hmu language: ''Qeef Dongb Naif Dol Hmub Dol Gud Zid Zid Zeb''; Kam language: ''Qeens Donc Nanc Nyenc Miiul Nyenc Gaeml Zil Zl Zous''), also known as Southeast Qian Autonomous Prefecture of Miao a ...

and is one of the province's eastern gateways.

Geography and climate

Sansui County is located in the east of Guizhou and the northeast of Qiandongnan Prefecture away from the provincial capital of Guiyang and away from the prefecture seat of Kaili. It ranges in latitude from 26° 47' to 27° 04' N and in longitude from 108° 32' to 109° 04' E, spanning a total area of . Bordering counties are

Xinhuang Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Xinhuang County", commonly abbreviated as Xinhuang, ) is an autonomous county of Dong people and the westernmost county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the pref ...

(Hunan) to the northeast, Tianzhu and Jianhe to the southeast and southwest, and Zhenyuan to the north. The county is part of the

Yuan River The Yuan River, also known by its Chinese name as the Yuanjiang, is one of the four largest rivers in Hunan province in southeast-central China. It is a tributary of Yangtze River. It is long and rises in Guizhou province in the Miao Mountains ...

watershed, and there is a total of of rivers within its borders. Sansui has a

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscil ...

-influenced

humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...

(

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''Cfa''), with chilly, damp winters, and hot, humid summers. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from in January to in July, while the annual mean is . More than half of the annual rainfall occurs from May to August, while the annual frost-free period typically lasts 290 to 300 days.

Transportation

The county has one railway station,

Sansui railway station Sansui railway station is a railway station of Hangchangkun Passenger Railway located in Guizhou, People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most popul ...

References

{{authority control County-level divisions of Guizhou Counties of Qiandongnan Prefecture