Huizhou
惠州市 | |
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Motto: A city to benefit people (惠民之州) | |
Coordinates (Huizhou government): 23°06′43″N 114°24′58″E / 23.112°N 114.416°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Guangdong |
City | 1988 |
Municipal seat | Huicheng District |
Government | |
• CPC Secretary | Li Yiwei (李贻伟) |
• Mayor | Liu Ji (刘吉) |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 10,922 km2 (4,217 sq mi) |
• Urban | 2,672 km2 (1,032 sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,488.5 km2 (574.7 sq mi) |
• Coastline | 223.6 km2 (86.3 sq mi) |
Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
Population (2020 census[1]) | |
• Prefecture-level city | 6,042,852 |
• Density | 550/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
• Urban | 3,494,715 |
• Urban density | 1,300/km2 (3,400/sq mi) |
• Metro | 2,090,578 |
• Metro density | 1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi) |
GDP[2] | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 497.7 billion US$ 77.2 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 82,113 US$ 12,728 |
Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 516000 |
Area code | 0752 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-GD-13 |
Licence Plate | 粤L |
Website | www |
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Chinese | 惠州 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Postal | Waichow | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Huizhou (Chinese: 惠州) is a city in central-east Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Heyuan to the northeast, Shanwei to the east, and Daya Bay of the South China Sea to the south. As of the 2020 census, the city has about 6,042,852 inhabitants and is administered as a prefecture-level city.[3] Huizhou's core metropolitan area, which is within Huicheng and Huiyang Districts, is home to around 2,090,578 inhabitants.[4]