Jianghua ( "''Jianghua Yao Autonomous County''", ; usually referred to as "''Jianghua County''", ) is an

autonomous county Autonomous counties () and autonomous banners () are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. The two are essentially identical except in name. There are 117 autonomous counties and three autonomous banners. The latter are ...

Yao people The Yao people (its majority branch is also known as Mien; ; vi, người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China and Vietnam. They are one of the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities in China and reside in t ...

in the

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

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, Jiangx ...

, China, it is under the administration of Yongzhou Prefecture-level City. Located on the southernmost margin of the province, it lies to the west of the border with

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, and the north of the border with

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. The county is bordered to the north by Dao and Ningyuan Counties, to the northeast by Lanshan County, to the east by Lianzhou City,

Liannan Liannan Yao Autonomous County ( postal: Linnam; ) is located in the north of Guangdong province, China, and is part of Qingyuan prefecture-level city. More than half the population of the county is part of the Yao people. Climate See also * A ...

and Lianshan Counties of Guangdong, to the south by Babu and

Pinggui District Pinggui District (; za, Bingzgvei Gih) is one of two urban districts of the city of Hezhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The district lies in the western part of the city proper of Hezhou, it was formed from one subdistrict, one towns ...

s of Hezhou City and

Zhongshan County Zhongshan County (; za, Cunghsanh Yen) is a county in the northeast of Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hezhou Hezhou () is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous ...

of Guangxi, to the west by Fuchuan County of Guangxi and Jiangyong County. Jianghua County covers , as of 2015, It had a registered population of 521,400 and a resident population of 429,100.the population of Jianghua County in 2015, according to the Statistical Communiqué of Jianghua County on the 2015 National Economic and Social Development - (2015年江华县国民经济和社会发展统计公报)
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and 7 townships under its jurisdiction, the

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Tuojiang The Tuo River (; pinyin: Tuó Jiāng) is -long river in Sichuan province of southern China. The Tuo River is one of the major tributaries of the upper Yangtze River (''Chang Jiang''). Geography The river originates at the northwest edge of Sic ...

().the divisions of Jianghua County in 2015, according to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Jianghua County on November 19, 2015 - 《湖南省民政厅关于同意江华瑶族自治县乡镇区划调整方案的批复》(湘民行发〔2015〕48号)
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Administrative divisions

;9 towns * Baimangying () * Centianhe () * Dalupu () *

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() * Helukou () *

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Shuikou Shuikou may refer to: *Shuikou, Meizhou, a town in Xingning City, Meizhou, Guangdong Province, China *Shuikou, Yanling, a town in Yanling County, Huzhou, Hunan Province, China * Shuikou, Gutian, a town in Gutian County, Ningde, Fujian Province, C ...

() * Taoyu () *

() ;6 townships * Dashiqiao () *

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() * Jiepai () * Qiaoshi () * Weizhukou () *

Xiangjiang The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the 2nd largest tributary (after Min River) in terms of surface runoff, the 5th largest tributary ...

() ;1 ethnic township *

Zhuang Xiaoyu Zhuang may refer to: *Zhuang people (or Bouxcuengh people), ethnic group in China *Zhuang languages *Zhuang logogram *Zhuang Zhou, ancient Chinese philosopher *Zhuang (surname) Zhuang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in ...

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Climate

References

www.xzqh.org

External links

County-level divisions of Hunan Yongzhou Yao autonomous counties {{Hunan-geo-stub