Sanshui
三水区 | |
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 Sanshui North railway station | |
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.png) Location of Sanshui District (red) in Foshan City and Guangdong | |
| Coordinates: 23°09′21″N 112°53′48″E / 23.15583°N 112.89667°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Prefecture-level city | Foshan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 874 km2 (337 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 11 m (37 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 622,645 |
| • Density | 710/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 528100 |
| Area code | 0757 |
| Licence plate prefix | 粤 ET |
| Website | http://www.sanshui.gov.cn/ |
| Sanshui, Foshan | |||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 三水 | ||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Saam1-seoi2 | ||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Sāamséui | ||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Sānshǔi | ||||||||||||
| Postal | Samshui | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Three Waters Tri-River | ||||||||||||
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Sanshui District, formerly romanized as Samshui,[a] is an urban district of the prefecture-level city of Foshan in Guangdong province, China. It had a population of 622,645 as of the 2010 census.[2] It is known for the "Samsui women", emigrants who labour in Singapore, and for a large fireworks explosion in 2008.
- ^ Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
- ^ Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township (1st ed.). Beijing: China Statistics Print. 2012. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.
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