Yǒngdìng

Yǒngdìng lies in the mountains of western Fújiàn, among the Hakka settlements of the old Tīngzhōu region. It became a county in 1478 under the Míng, bringing the number of counties in Tīngzhōu Prefecture to eight. The district formed part of a wider inland landscape in which Hakka communities lived across the borders of Fújiàn and Guǎngdōng.