Yangjiang (Guangdong Sheng, China)

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Name (Hebrew)
יאנגג'יאנג (גואנגדונג שנג, סין)
Name (Latin)
Yangjiang (Guangdong Sheng, China)
Other forms of name
Yang-chiang (Guangdong Sheng, China)
Yeungkong (Guangdong Sheng, China)
Yeunkong (Guangdong Sheng, China)
Liang-yang (Guangdong Sheng, China)
Jiangcheng (Guangdong Sheng, China)
Coordinates
111.96272 111.96272 21.85563 21.85563 (gooearth )
Associated country
China
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 138504437
Wikidata: Q59209
Library of congress: n 90626903
Sources of Information
  • NUCMC data from Presby. Hist. Soc., Phila., for Dobson, W.H. Papers, 1893-1964
  • Lipp. gaz., 1961
  • Gaz. of the PRC, 1979:
  • GEOnet, Feb. 19, 2004
  • Yangjiang Shi jiao tong you lan tu, 2000:
Wikipedia description:

Yangjiang (simplified Chinese: 阳江; traditional Chinese: 陽江, yang-CH'YANG), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north, Jiangmen to the east, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south. The local dialect is the Gaoyang dialect, a branch of Yue Chinese. During the 2020 census, its population was 2,602,959 inhabitants of whom 1,292,987 lived in the built-up (or metro) and largely urbanized area comprising Jiangcheng District and Yangdong County.

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