Yongding
永定区 Engteng; Yungting | |
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 Tulou landscape in the Nanxi Creek Valley, Hukeng Town (Nanjiang Village) | |
 Yongding in Longyan | |
 Longyan in Fujian | |
| Coordinates (Yongding government): 24°43′26″N 116°43′55″E / 24.724°N 116.732°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Fujian |
| Prefecture-level city | Longyan |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,223 km2 (858 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
• Total | 361,000 |
| • Density | 160/km2 (420/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
| Yongding, Longyan | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 永定 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 永定 | ||||||||||
| Hakka | Yún-thin | ||||||||||
| Postal | Engteng | ||||||||||
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Yongding (Chinese: 永定) is a district under the jurisdiction of Longyan prefecture-level city in the southwest of Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. The district is a center for Hakka culture, including the traditional Hakka tulou, and a local dialect of the Hakka Chinese called the Yongding Dialect. As of 2015, Yongding has a permanent population of about 361,000,[1]: 40 of which more than 99% are Hakka, the rest being She people.[citation needed] In December 2014, the Fujian government signed legislation converting Yongding from a county to a district.[2]
Yongding is the hometown of many overseas Chinese immigrants that came to south-east Asia and Burma during the British Raj.
- ^ 永定年鉴 [Yearbook of Yongding]. www.yongding.gov.cn (in Chinese). Yongding District People's Government. 2016. Archived from the original on 2021-12-02. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- ^ "Yongding county is now a district". China Daily. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2015.