Longhui 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 ...

and the 6th most populous county-level division in the

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Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

, China; it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in the mid-eastern Hunan, the county is bordered to the north by

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and Xupu Counties, to the west by

Dongkou County Dongkou County () is a county in the Province of Hunan, China. It is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in west-central Hunan, the county is bordered to the northeast by Longhui County, to the northwest by Xupu County and Hongji ...

, to the south by Wugang City and Shaoyang County, and to the east by

Xinshao County Xinshao County () is a county in the Province of Hunan, China. It is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in central Hunan, the county is bordered to the north by Lianyuan City, Lengshuijiang City and Xinhua County, to the west by ...

. Longhui County covers an area of , and as of 2015, it had a registered population of 1,231,600 and a permanent resident population of 1,100,900. The county has 17

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and seven

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under its jurisdiction, and the

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is Taohong Town ().
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also see The county was amongst the list of impoverished places of China, and finally got off the poverty list in the early 2000s.

Administrative divisions

;17 towns * Beishan () *

Gaoping Gaoping () is a county-level city in the southeast of Shanxi Province, China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jincheng. It has a history stretching back to the Warring States period (403–221 BCE). Part of the city w ...

() * Hengbanqiao () * Hexiangqiao () * Jinshiqiao () * Liuduzhai () * Nanyuemiao () *

Qijiang Qijiang District () is a district of Chongqing, China, bordering Guizhou province to the south. The district has an area of 2,748 km2 and a population of 1,213,770 (de facto resident population 825,500 as of 2017). In October 2011, Qijiang ...

() * Sangesi () * Simenqian () * Tantou () *

Taohong Taohong () is a town and the county seat, seat of Longhui County in Hunan, China. The town was established in 1942the history of Taohong Town, according to the ''Dictionary of Chinese Administrative Divisions'' (中国行政区划大典) published ...

() * Xiaoshajiang () * Xiyangjiang () * Yankou () * Yatian () * Zhouwang () ;5 townships * Dashuitian () * Hetian () * Luohong () * Matangshan () * Yanggu'ao () ;2 ethnic townships * Yao Huxingshan () * Hui Shanjie ()

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