Kaiping
开平市 Hoiping | |
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 Dixi Road in Chikan, Kaiping | |
.png) Location of Kaiping City Centre (red) in Kaiping (pink), Guangdong province, and the PRC | |
  Kaiping Location of the Kaiping city centre in Guangdong | |
| Coordinates: 22°22′38″N 112°41′54″E / 22.3773°N 112.6982°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Prefecture-level city | Jiangmen |
| County seat | Changsha Subdistrict (长沙街道) |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,659 km2 (641 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
• Total | 748,777 |
| • Density | 450/km2 (1,200/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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Kaiping (simplified Chinese: 开平; traditional Chinese: 開平), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping,[a] in local dialect as Hoihen, 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 748,777 as of 2020 and an area of 1,659 square kilometres (641 sq mi).[3][4] The locals speak a variant of the Sze Yup dialect.
- ^ Bolton & al. (1941), p. 262.
- ^ Woon, Yuen-fong (1984). Social organization in South China, 1911-1949: the case of the Kuan lineage in K'ai-p'ing county. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. ISBN 0-89264-051-0.
- ^ "China: Guăngdōng (Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ^ "Profile of Kaiping" (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on January 18, 2010. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
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