Kaiping
County-level city in Guangdong, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the county-level city in Guangdong. For the district of Tangshan, Hebei, see Kaiping District. For the ancient city in Inner Mongolia, see Shangdu. For former county in Liaoning, see Kaiping, Liaoning.
Kaiping (Chinese: 开平), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping,[lower-alpha 1] is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. It is located in the western section of the Pearl River Delta and administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. The surrounding area, especially Sze Yup (Chinese: 四邑), is the ancestral homeland of many overseas Chinese, particularly in the United States.[2] Kaiping has a population of 688,242 as of 2017 and an area of 1,659 square kilometres (641 sq mi).[3] The locals speak a variant of the Sze Yup dialect.
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Kaiping
开平市 Hoiping | |
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Coordinates: 22°22′38″N 112°41′54″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Guangdong |
Prefecture-level city | Jiangmen |
County seat | Changsha Subdistrict (长沙街道) |
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• Total | 1,659 km2 (641 sq mi) |
Population (2017 census) | |
• Total | 688,242 |
• Density | 410/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 529300 |
Area code | 0750 |
Website | www |
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Simplified Chinese | 开平 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 開平 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Taishanese | Hoi3-pen6 (local) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Kāipíng | ||||||||||||||||||||
Postal | Hoiping | ||||||||||||||||||||
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