Honghe County is located in the south of Yunnan Province, on the south bank of the upper reaches of the Honghe River, and belongs to the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Located between 101 ° 49 '- 102 ° 37' E and 23 ° 05 '- 23 ° 27' N, the county borders Yuanyang County and Lvchun County in the east and south, faces Shiping County across the Red River in the north, borders Mojiang Hani Autonomous County in Simao City in the west, and connects Yuanjiang County in Yuxi City in the northwest. The maximum distance from the east to the west is 81 kilometers, the widest point from the north to the south is 40 kilometers, and the land area is 2034 square kilometers. The county seat is located in Yisa Town. According to the data of the seventh population census, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Honghe County was 284607.

There are Hani, Yi, Dai, Yao and other ethnic minorities living in Honghe County. The population of ethnic minorities accounts for 94% of the total population of Honghe County, of which Hani accounts for 75%. The main specialties include kudzu powder, small mango, etc. China's top 100 summer leisure counties and cities in 2020. On May 17, 2020, it officially withdrew from the poverty county sequence. In August 2021, it was selected as the national key county for rural revitalization.

In 2020, Honghe County's GDP reached 7.048 billion yuan, up 4.3% year on year. We completed 168 million yuan of local general public budget revenue and 3.01 billion yuan of local general public budget expenditure. The investment in fixed assets was 7.97 billion yuan. The retail sales of consumer goods totaled 3.56 billion yuan. The per capita disposable income of urban permanent residents was 34736 yuan, up 3.4% year on year; The per capita disposable income of rural permanent residents was 10430 yuan, up 8.4% year on year.