Shishou, a county - level city in Hubei Province, is administered by Jingzhou City. It is located on the bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the geographical center of the two lakes plain (Jianghan Plain, Dongting Lake Plain), the southern end of the central axis of Hubei Province, and an important city of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Hunan Anxiang, Huarong in the south, Jiangling in the north, Jianli in the east, west public security. By 2010, the city covers an area of 1,427 square kilometers. By October 2021, Shishou has jurisdiction over 2 subdistricts, 11 towns and 1 township. According to the seventh census data, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Shishou was 473,707.

Shishou is a landscape style of the city, "isolated stone" in the north of the city Shishou Mountain for the name. Shi Shou is a plain, both hills. The whole terrain is slightly northwest high, middle low, inclined to the southwest, the ground elevation is generally between 31 meters - 36 meters. The Yangtze River Tiaizhou white-flag Dolphin Nature Reserve and Tiaizhou Wetland Elk Nature Reserve are located in Shishou City, which has been awarded the title of "Town of Elk in China". In October 2017, it was named a national garden city by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
In 2019, the city's gross regional product reached 22.349 billion yuan, an increase of 8.5% over the previous year at comparable prices.