Dao County () is a
county
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
in
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
Yongzhou prefecture-level City.
Located on the southern margin of the province, it is adjacent to the northeastern border of
Guangxi
Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...
. The county borders to the northeast by
Shuangpai County, to the east by
Ningyuan County, to the south by
Jianghua County, to the southwest by
Jiangyong County, and to the northwest and the north by
Guanyang and
Quanzhou Counties of Guangxi. Dao County covers , and as of 2015, it had a registered population of 802,800 and a resident population of 624,600.
[the population of Dao County in 2015, according to the Statistical Communiqué of Dao County on the 2015 National Economic and Social Development - (2015年道县国民经济和社会发展统计公报)]
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The county has 11
towns
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
, four
townships and 7
subdistricts under its jurisdiction, and 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
Lianxi ().
[the divisions of Dao County in 2015, according to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Dao County on November 16, 2015 - 《湖南省民政厅关于同意道县乡镇区划调整方案的批复》(湘民行发〔2015〕22号)]
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also see 《湖南省乡镇区划调整改革109个县市区批复方案》
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History
Forces of the Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflict lasted 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850 until the fall of ...
stopped by Daozhou on their way to Changsha
Changsha is the capital of Hunan, China. It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, the Central China#Cities with urban area over one million in population, third-most populous city in Central China, and the ...
and Wuchang
Wuchang is one of 13 urban District (China), districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right (southea ...
, Hubei
Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...
. They convinced 20,000 locals to join the rebellion.
The Dao County Massacre of 1967
The 1967 mass killing in Dao County, known as the Dao County Massacre, lasted 66 days from August 13 to October 17, 1967. It resulted in 4,519 dead, of whom 4,193 were killed outright and 326 were forced to commit suicide.[《血的神话——公元1967年湖南道县文革大屠杀纪实》（作者: 谭合成） se]
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There are two principal features of this massacre. The first one is that it took place during the Cultural Revolution. The other is that nearly 90 percent of the victims were labeled as "class enemies", i.e., the so-called Black Five Categories (landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, "bad elements," and rightists) and their family members.
Administrative divisions
;7 subdistricts
* Dongmen ()
* Futang ()
* Lianxi ()
* Shangguan ()
* Wanjiazhuang ()
* Xizhou ()
* Yingjiang ()
;11 towns
* Baimadu ()
* Baimangpu ()
* Ganziyuan ()
* Gongba ()
* Meihua ()
* Qiaotou ()
* Qingtang ()
* Shouyan ()
* Simaqiao ()
* Xianglinpu ()
* Xianzijiao ()
;1 township
* Lefutang ()
;3 Yao ethnic township
* Hengling ()
* Hongtangying ()
* Zhangyitang ()
Climate
Transport
* Luoyang–Zhanjiang Railway
See also
* Fuyan Cave
* Yuchanyan Cave
References
www.xzqh.org
External links
*
Dao County
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