Hanshou County
county
Hanshou County (simplified Chinese: 汉寿县; traditional Chinese: 漢壽縣; pinyin: Hànshòu Xiàn) is a county in Hunan Province, China, under the administration of Changde prefecture-city. The County is located on the north in Hunan Province and the southeast in Changde City, it borders to the north and the west by Dingcheng District, to the south by Ziyang District of Yiyang City and Taojiang County, and to the east by Yuanjiang and Nan County. It has an area of 2,091.3 kilometres (1,299.5 mi) with registered population of 821,266 (as of 2015). It is divided into four subdistricts, 16 towns and three townships under its jurisdiction. The county seat is Longyang Subdistrict (龙阳街道).
History
Abundant source of waters and rivers make Hanshou County a productive fish and rice area. Dongting Lake was once the largest lake in China. This changed in the 1950s when the national Chinese government encouraged plantation of rice and built many dams in the lake. The area of Dongting Lake shrank dramatically. Owing to the river network in this district, a land transportation system was underdeveloped.
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