Shaoguan
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Shaoguan 韶关市 |
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Qujiang Bridge (曲江桥)
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 Location of Shaoguan City jurisdiction in Guangdong |
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 Shaoguan
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| Coordinates: 24°49′N 113°36′E / 24.817°N 113.600°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| County-level divisions | 10 |
| Municipal seat | Zhenjiang District |
| Government | |
| • CPC Secretary | Jiang Ling (江凌) |
| • Mayor | Luo Weifeng (骆蔚峰) |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 18,645 km2 (7,199 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,870.7 km2 (1,108.4 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,249.9 km2 (482.6 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 59 m (194 ft) |
| Population (2010 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 2,826,246 |
| • Density | 150/km2 (390/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 991,600 |
| • Urban density | 350/km2 (890/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 688,229 |
| • Metro density | 550/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Area code(s) | (0)751 |
| Licence plate prefixes | 粤F |
| Local dialect |
Hakka Cantonese (non-native) |
| Major Nationalities | Han |
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"Shaoguan", as written in Chinese
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| Simplified Chinese | 韶关 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 韶關 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hakka | Shâu-kûan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Shiukwan Shiuchow (former) |
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| Literal meaning | Beautiful pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Sháoguān |
| Wade–Giles | Shao2-kuan1 |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | zau1kuae1 |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Shâu-kûan |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Sìuhgwāan |
| Jyutping | siu4gwaan1 |
Shaoguan (Chinese: 韶关) is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong Province, China, bordering Hunan to the northwest and Jiangxi to the northeast. It is home to the mummified remains of the sixth Zen Buddhist patriarch Huineng. Its built-up or metro area made up of Zhenjiang and Wujiang urban districts was home to 688,229 inhabitants at the 2010 census, Qujiang district not being conurbated yet.
Shaozhou was a prefecture under the Tang and Song.
In 1589, Matteo Ricci relocated his mission house – the first ever Jesuit mission in mainland China – to Shaoguan after a fallout with the authorities in Zhaoqing. He remained in Shaoguan for a few years, eventually benefiting from Shaoguan's location on the important north-south travel route to establish connections with traveling dignitaries that allowed him to move north, to Nanchang, Nanjing, and Beijing.
During World War II the city, then called Kukong, was the capital of Guangdong Province.
In June 2009, Uyghurs and Han workers clashed at a toy factory in Shaoguan, which was followed by the Ürümqi riots in July.
Shaoguan is the northernmost prefecture-level city of Guangdong, bordering Chenzhou (Hunan) to the northwest and north, Ganzhou (Jiangxi) to the northeast, Heyuan to the east, Guangzhou and Huizhou to the south, and Qingyuan to the west. It spans latitude 23° 05'−25° 31' N and longitude 112° 50'−114° 45' E. It is situated at the southern end of the Nan Mountains (Nan Ling), which primarily run east-west here, and is marked by numerous erosion-created valleys; within its borders lies the 1,902 m (6,240 ft) (石坑崆), the highest point in the province. The city is located on the Jingguang Railway (Beijing−Guangzhou) about 221 kilometres (137 mi) north of the provincial capital of Guangzhou. Shaoguan is also readily accessible by road as it is adjacent to the G4 Beijing–Hong Kong–Macau Expressway as well as numerous other National Highways.
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