How many counties are there in Shaoyang?

There are seven counties in this city.

They are: Xinshao County, Shaoyang County, Longhui County, Dongkou County, Suining County, Xinning County and Chengbu Miao Autonomous County.

1. Xinshao County is located in the north of Shaoyang City, in the middle of Hunan Province, between Shaoyang Basin and Xinlian Basin, with high terrain in the south and low terrain in the north.

2. Shaoyang County, an old revolutionary base area, is a national key county for poverty alleviation and development and a national key county for the project of returning farmland to forests.

3. Longhui County is located in the upper reaches of Zijiang River in the southwest of central Hunan Province. Xinshao County is in the east, Shaoyang County and Wugang City in the south, Dongkou County in the west and Pu Shu and Xinhua County in the north.

Dongkou County is located in the southwest of central Hunan Province, with mountainous terrain in the northwest and hilly terrain in the southeast, which belongs to subtropical monsoon humid climate.

5. In the 11th year of Tang Zhenguan (637), Suining County was originally named Huizhou. In the first year of Song Chongning (1 102), the court changed Dong Xi Huizhou to Jimi Huizhou. In the second year of Chongning, Huizhou was forced to resume service again, and Yanzhu County was restored. In that year, it was renamed Suining County (meaning "Suining") and was placed under Shaozhou.

6. Xinning County is one of the production base counties of timber forest, pit wood forest, fast-growing and high-yield forest, Phyllostachys pubescens and tung tree in Hunan Province, and also one of the base counties of raw lacquer and Fraxinus mandshurica designated by the state.

7. Chengbu Miao Autonomous County means water town city. Chengbu Miao Autonomous County belongs to Shaoyang City, Hunan Province, and is located in the southwest of Hunan Province. Hunan Miao Autonomous County, one of the five ethnic autonomous counties approved by the State Council 1956.