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Xinhui District

Xinhui District
新会区
District
Xinhui City (red) within Guangdong
Xinhui City (red) within Guangdong
Country People's Republic of China
Province Guangdong
Prefecture Jiangmen
Area
 • Total 1,387.02 km2 (535.53 sq mi)
Population
 • Total 740,000
 • Density 530/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone China Standard (UTC+8)
Website http://www.xinhui.gov.cn/
Xinhui
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Postal Sunwui
Former names
Kuixiang
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Gugangzhou
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaning Old Ridge Prefecture

Xinhui, formerly romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang, is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong, China. It grew from a separate city founded at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers. It has a population of about 735,500, 98% of whom are Han Chinese but many of whom speak a dialect of Cantonese as their first language. Xinhui is best known in China for its chenpi, a kind of dried orange peel.

Xinhui is situated at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers in the southwestern area of the Pearl River Delta. It borders the South China Sea and adjoins Macao and Hong Kong. It comprises a total area of 1,387.02 square meters (14,929.8 sq ft). Geologists have shown that Xinhui originated as a shallow bay at the mouth of the Pearl River about 5000 years ago, with its southeastern portion consisting of a chain of islands. The movement of the Tan and West Rivers eventually formed a delta that became the present alluvial plain over the course of the last nine hundred years.

Most of the present area of the Xinhui district formed during the historical period from silt deposited by the Tan and West Rivers. Some Neolithic artifacts, however, have been found in the district's territory over the last ten years, including shell mounds and pottery sherds.


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