Prefecture-level city Yongzhou Postal code 4253XX Province Hunan | Time zone China Standard (UTC+8) Area 2,441 km² Population 605,799 (2010) | |
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Country People's Republic of China | ||
Dao County (simplified Chinese: 道县; traditional Chinese: 道縣; pinyin: Dào Xiàn) is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Yongzhou prefecture-level City.
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Map of Daoxian, Yongzhou, Hunan, China
Located on the southern margin of the province, it is adjacent to the northeastern border of Guangxi. 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, to the northwest and the north by Guanyang and Quanzhou Counties of Guangxi. Dao County covers 2,448 km2 (945 sq mi), as of 2015, It had a registered population of 802,800 and a resident population of 624,600. The county has 11 towns, 4 townships and 7 subdistricts under its jurisdiction, the county seat is Lianxi (濂溪街道).
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.
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.
(source: http://www.massviolence.org/The-Dao-County-Massacre-of-1967)