In this paper, a new -type eigenvalue localization set for a tensor is derived by dividing [Formula: see text] into disjoint subsets and its complement. It is proved that this new set is sharper than those presented by Qi (J. Symb. Comput. 40:1302-1324, 2005), Li (Numer. Linear Algebra Appl. 21:39-50, 2014) and Li (Linear Algebra Appl. 481:36-53, 2015). As applications of the results, new bounds for the spectral radius of nonnegative tensors and the minimum -eigenvalue of strong -tensors are established, and we prove that these bounds are tighter than those obtained by Li (Numer. Linear Algebra Appl. 21:39-50, 2014) and He and Huang (J. Inequal. Appl. 2014:114, 2014).