Taoyuan County

Taoyuan County is a county in the northwestern part of Hunan Province, China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changde. The Yuan River, a tributary of the Yangtze, flows through it, and the county covers about 4,441 square kilometres, of which roughly 895 square kilometres is arable land, the largest area of farmland of any county in Hunan. It occupies the southwestern corner of Changde and borders Zhangjiajie to the northwest and Huaihua to the southwest. The county was formally established in AD 963 under the Song dynasty and takes its name from the fable of the Peach Blossom Spring. It has a humid subtropical climate, a population of about 976,000, a Han majority with several minority groups including a long established Uyghur community, and a regional Southwestern Mandarin dialect. Its Taohuayuan Scenic Area is modelled on the fable.