Yuanling County () is a county of

Hunan Province Hunan is an inland province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Guangdong and Guangxi to the south, and Guizhou and Chon ...

, China, it is under the administration of Huaihua Prefecture-level City. Located in northwest of the province, Yuanling is in the border locations of Huaihua,

Xiangxi Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture; Tujia: ; Miao: is an autonomous prefecture of the People's Republic of China. It is located in northwestern Hunan province.) being an abbreviation for Hunan and ( zh, labels=no, p=xī) meaning 'we ...

Zhangjiajie Zhangjiajie (; Tujia language, Tujia: /tsán tɕá kǎi/) is a prefecture-level city in the northwestern part of Hunan, Hunan Province, China. It comprises the district of Yongding District, Zhangjiajie, Yongding, Wulingyuan District, Wulingyua ...

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and

Yiyang Yiyang ( zh, s=益阳 , t=益陽 , p=Yìyáng) is a prefecture-level city on the Zi River in Hunan province, China, straddling Lake Dongting and bordering Hubei to the north. According to the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Repub ...

five

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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 Mountain ...

flows through it southwest to northeast. The county is bordered to the north by

Yongding District Yongding () may refer to: *Yongding River, in Beijing *Yongding District, Longyan, a district in Longyan, Fujian *Yongding District, Zhangjiajie, a district in Zhangjiajie, Hunan *Yongding Subdistrict, a subdistrict in Yongding District, Zhangjiaji ...

, to the east by Taoyuan and Anhua Counties, to the south by

Xupu Xupu County () is a county of Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of Huaihua Prefecturel-level City. Located on the west central Hunan, the county is bordered to the north by Yuanling County, to the northeast by Anhua County, t ...

and Chenxi Counties, and to the west by Luxi,

Guzhang Guzhang County ( zh, t=古丈縣 , s=古丈县 , p=Gǔzhàng Xiàn) is a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county of Hunan, Hunan Province, China. The county is the List of County-level divisions of Hunan by population, 2nd least populo ...

and Yongshun Counties. Yuanling County covers an area of , and as of 2015, it had a registered population of 671,500 and a resident population of 601,800.the population of Yuanling County in 2015, according to the o
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and 13

townships A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

under its jurisdiction, the

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...

is Yuanling Town ().the divisions of Yuanling County in 2015, according to the ; also see o
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Ethnic groups

According to the ''Yuanling County Gazetteer'' (1993:104), there are 36,715 ethnic Miao and 23,879 ethnic Tujia. There are also 135 ethnic Bai living in the Zhuhong Stream watershed 朱红溪 of Beirong District 北容区, namely the villages of Luoping 落坪, Qijiaxi 七甲溪, Daheping 大合坪. Yuanling is also home to the

Waxiang people The Waxiang people () are an unrecognized ethnic group living along the Yuan River in Yuanling County of western Hunan, China. They call themselves Huaxiang people (), and speak Waxiang Chinese. Compared to the Han, Miao and Tujia people of t ...

Climate

References

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