Shantou is part of the Chaoshan region, Shantou is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province. Shantou is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province. Chaoshan is the collective name for the cities of Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang.
1. Shantou is located in the eastern part of Guangdong Province, at the southern end of the Han River Delta, bordered by Chaozhou City in the north, Jieyang City in the west and the South China Sea in the southeast. Within the Han River, Rong River, Lianjiang River into the sea, the mainland coastline of 217.7 kilometers long, the island coastline of 167.37 kilometers long, there are 82 large and small islands. Under the jurisdiction of six municipal districts and one county, with a total area of 2064 square kilometers and a resident population of 5,579,200 in 2016.
2, the Chaoshan region, the name of the successive generations of the name of Chaozhou Province, the name of the Chaoshan Baji, the contemporary original name of the city of Shantou, Shantou City, Shantou City in 1991, partitioned into today's Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang, the three cities, the birthplace of the global Chaoshan people and Chaoshan merchants, with *** the same geographic origin, ethnic groups, dialects and folklore. The three cities of Chaoshan cover 10 districts, 4 counties and 1 county-level city, Puning, with a total resident population of more than 13 million and a total area of 10,918 square kilometers.
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The Three Cities of Chaoshan:
Shantou Municipality has jurisdiction over Chenghai (now divided into Chenghai (now divided into 3 districts of Chenghai, Jinping and Longhu), 2 Eups of Chaoyang (now divided into 3 districts of Chaoyang, Chaonan and Haojiang) and Nan'ao County (formerly Raoping Eup), 2 Eups of Chaozhou City under the jurisdiction of Raooping (other than Nan'ao County) and Haiyang (now divided into 2 districts of Chao'an and Xiangqiao), and 3 Eups of Jieyang (now divided into 2 districts of Rongcheng, Jiedong, and Jiexi, and 1 county), Huilai and Puning under the jurisdiction of Jieyang City.
In 1983, the Shantou area was established as Shantou City, and in September of the same year, Hailufeng was reclassified as Huiyang area (in January 1988, Hailufeng was established as Shantou City), Shantou City has jurisdiction over 9 counties of Chao'an, Chaoyang, Jieyang, Jiexi, Chenghai, Puning, Raooping, Huilai, and Nan'ao, and Shantou City, with jurisdiction over the present-day Shantou, Chaozhou, and Jieyang, which are now Shantou, Chaozhou, and Jieyang, and the present-day Chaoshan and Jieyang, which are now Chaoshan, Chaozhou, and Jieyang, with Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, as well as the present-day Jieyang, Chaozhou and Jieyang. In 1991, Shantou was divided into three cities: Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang.
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