Badong County, under the Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Hubei Province, is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in the northeast of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. It is connected to Xingshan County, Zigui County and Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in the east, Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County and Hefeng County in Yichang in the south, Jianshi County and Wushan County in Chongqing in the west, and Shennongjia Forest District in the north. The total area is 3,351.6 square kilometers. As of June 2020, Badong County has jurisdiction over 10 towns and 2 townships. According to the seventh census data, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, Badong County has a permanent population of 395,376 people.

Padang has a large number of Paleolithic Age, Neolithic Age and various historical periods of ancient cultural sites, ruins of ancient tombs and ancient trestle road. Such as: Flame stone paleolithic culture site, Yangtze River ancient plank road, Xilangpo ancient tomb group, East Rangkou attached horse tomb, Yanchi River Ba people cultural activity site, etc. Tens of thousands of cultural relics have been unearthed in the Three Gorges and Qingjiang inundation areas.
Badong County is the national ecological civilization construction demonstration county, the national health county, the national garden county, the national "safe agricultural machinery" demonstration county, and the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization plots.

In April 2020, the People's Government of Hubei Province approved Badong County's withdrawal from the list of poverty-stricken counties.

In 2020, Badong County's GDP reached 12.528 billion yuan, down 3.1% year-on-year in real terms. The added value of the primary industry was 2.528 billion yuan, up 0.6% year on year; The added value of the secondary industry was 3.151 billion yuan, up by 7.3%; The value added of the tertiary industry was 6.85 billion yuan, down 9.0%. The ratio of three industrial structures is 20.2:25.2:54.6. The primary industry accounted for 2.4 percentage points more than the previous year, the secondary industry for 0.5 percentage points more than the previous year, and the tertiary industry for 2.9 percentage points down.