The overall territory of Yongzhou roughly takes the shape of a vertical ellipse, with Shangyuan, Xingye, and Xiayuan arranged from north to south. Tongling County is an administrative district located to the east of Xingnan Prefecture in Xiayuan Road, covering an area of about one hundred and ten square miles and governing three counties: Zhaoyang, Baiye, and Yulin.
Among them, Baiye and Yulin are respectively located to the northeast and southeast of the prefectural city, both at a distance of about fifty miles, while Zhaoyang is situated to the east of the city, at a distance of roughly one hundred miles.
Between the three counties and one prefecture, there are a total of four official roads, with the longest being the one from Zhaoyang to the prefectural city, extending over a hundred miles.
