Shaoyang County () is a

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in the

Province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

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 ...

, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in the southwest of the province, the county is bordered to the north by

Dongkou County Dongkou County () is a county in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in west-central Hunan, the county is bordered to the northeast by Longhui County, to the northwest by Xupu County and Hongjia ...

, to the west by

Huitong Huitong County () is a county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Huaihua Prefecturel-level City. Located on the west central margin of the province, the county lies to the east of the border of Guizhou. It is bordered to ...

and Jingzhou Counties, to the southwest by

Tongdao County Tongdao (the full name: "''Tongdao Dong Autonomous County''", ; usually referred to as "''Tongdao County''", ) is an autonomous county of Dong people in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Huaihua ...

, to the southeast by

Chengbu County Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Chengbu County", commonly abbreviated as "Chengbu", ) is an autonomous county of Miao people in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located on ...

, to the east by Wugang City. Shaoyang County covers , as of 2015, it had a registered population of 1,048,235 and a permanent resident population of 957,800. o
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and eight

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under its jurisdiction, the

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is Fenghuang Community ( ).
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Administrative divisions

;12 towns *

Baicang Baicang () is a town in Shaoyang County in eastern Hunan province, China, located south of the county seat. , it has one residential community () and 49 villages under its administration. See also *List of township-level divisions of Hunan T ...

() * Changyangpu () * Guzhou () * Huangtingshi () * Jinchengshi () * Jiugongqiao () * Lijiaping () *

Tangdukou Tangdukou () is a town and the seat of Shaoyang County in Hunan, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous coun ...

() * Tangtianshi () * Wufengpu () * Xiahuaqiao () * Yankoupu () ;8 townships * Caijiaqiao () *

Changle (, Foochow Romanized: Diòng-lŏ̤h) is one of 6 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, China. It occupies a land area of and a sea area of . Changle was established in the sixth year of Em ...

() *

Hebo Hebo () is the god of the Yellow River (''Huang He''). The Yellow River is the main river of northern China, one of the world's major rivers and a river of great cultural importance in China. This is reflected in Chinese mythology by the tales s ...

() * Huangjing () * Jinjiang () * Luocheng () * Xiaoxishi () * Zhujiating ()

Climate

Transportation

Shaoyang West railway station on the

Huaihua–Shaoyang–Hengyang railway The Huaihua–Shaoyang–Hengyang railway is a railway line Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology. The difference between the American term ''railroad'' and the international term ''railway'' (used by the International Union of ...

is located here.

References

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www.xzqh.org

External links

County-level divisions of Hunan Shaoyang {{Hunan-geo-stub