Ledong

Location of the Ledong Autonomous County (pink) in the area directly subordinate to the province (yellow)

The Autonomous County of Ledong the Li ( 乐东黎族自治县 , Lèdōng Lízú zìzhìxiàn ) is an autonomous district in the southwest of the island province of Hainan ( 海南省 ) in the south of the People's Republic of China . In 1999 it had 468,834 inhabitants. Its main town is the large community of Baoyou ( 抱由镇 ).