Dongguan

Dongguan () is an important industrial prefecture-level city in the Pearl River Delta, in the Guangdong Province of southern China. Covering a land area of 2,465 km², the municipality has a registered population of 1,561,900 and a permanent population of over 6,400,000.

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Dongguan Municipality is 50 km away from Guangzhou to its north, 90 km away from Shenzhen to its south, 47 sea miles away from Hong Kong and 48 sea miles from Macao by waterway. Dongguan is a must-pass-by locality from Guangzhou to Hong Kong by road or waterway.

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Prefecture-level city: A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: d?j? sh?, literally "region-level city") or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefecture-level citie...

Pearl River Delta: The Pearl River Delta (PRD, Chinese: ?????; Mandarin Pinyin: Zh? Ji?ng S?nji?ozh?u; Cantonese ; Jyutping: zyu1 gong1 saam1 gok3 zau1), China, occupies the low-lying areas alongside the Pearl River estuary where the river flows into the South China Sea. Since the "Open Door Policy" was adopted in lat...

Guangdong: Guangdong (; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1; Vietnamese: Qu?ng ??ng), is a province on the south coast of the People's Republic of China. Sometimes, "Canton Province" (based on an obsolete French-derived transliteration of "Guangdong") is used to mean Guan...