Xinshao County () is a

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

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 central Hunan, the county is bordered to the north by Lianyuan City, Lengshuijiang City and

Xinhua County Xinhua County () is a county and the 4th most populous county-level division in the Province of Hunan, China; it is under the administration of Loudi City. Located along the middle reaches of the Zi River, it covers 3,635 square kilometers and ...

, to the west by

Longhui County Longhui County () is a county and the 6th most populous county-level division in the Province of Hunan, China; it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in the mid-eastern Hunan, the county is bordered to the north by Xinhua and ...

, to the south by

Shaoyang County Shaoyang County () is a county in the Province of Hunan, 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, to the west by Huitong and Jingzhou ...

and the city proper of Shaoyang. Xinshao County covers , as of 2015, it had a registered population of 828,100 and a permanent resident population of 769,700. o
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/ref> The county has 13

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and two

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under its jurisdiction, the

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Niangxi Niangxi Town () is a town and the county seat of Xinshao County in Hunan, China. The town was originally formed as a township, reorganized as a town in 1953.the history of Niangxi Town, according to the ''Dictionary of Chinese Administrative Divisi ...

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Administrative divisions

;13 towns * Chenjiafang () * Cunshi () * Daxin () * Jukoupu () * Longxipu () *

() * Pingshang () * Quetang () * Taizhimiao () * Tanxi () * Xiaotang () * Xintianpu () * Yantang () ;2 townships * Tanfu () * Yingguang ()

Climate

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