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    Jiaoling County (postal: Chiuling; simplified Chinese: 蕉岭; traditional Chinese: 蕉嶺) is a county in the northeast of Guangdong Province, China, bordering...
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  • bridges. Four deaths were reported in Meizhou's Meixian District, while Jiaoling County reported five fatalities. The Songyuan River, which flows through Meizhou...
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    Guangdong, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level...
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    many Hakka descendants living in Taiwan. Its original name was Chengxiang county (程鄕) during the southern Han Dynasty where it was first created, all the...
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    2024 Guangdong Floods Aerial photography of Jiaoling County, Meizhou after the flood (as of 19 June 2024) Date 16 April 2024 (2024-04-16) – present Location...
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    subdivided into 122 county-level divisions (65 districts, 20 county-level cities, 34 counties, and 3 autonomous counties). For county-level divisions, see...
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    Xie Jinyuan (category People from Jiaoling)
    Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Xie was a born in Jiaoling County, Guangdong province. He attended the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou...
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    boundaries of Bao'an County, which was established in imperial times. After the Opium Wars, the southern portion of Bao'an County was occupied by the British...
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    joining the city as urban districts and Conghua and Zengcheng as more rural counties. The former districts of Dongshan and Fangcun were abolished in 2005, merged...
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    comprises Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xingning City and five counties. Its built-up or metro area made up of two urban districts was home to...
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    12,543,024 inhabitants including Rongcheng and Jiedong districts, Jiexi county and Puning city in Jieyang plus all of Chaozhou city largely conurbated...
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    Prefecture are from Zhenping County, which is present-day Jiaoling County, so the Sixian dialect is closer to the Jiaoling dialect of mainland China. There...
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    urbanizing political center. On 26 June 1951, it left Nanhai County to become a separate county-level city and, in 1954, it was made the seat of the prefectural...
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  • was born in 1952 in British Hong Kong, with his ancestral home in Jiaoling County, Guangdong, China. He is the younger brother of Fields Medalist Shing-Tung...
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    district and county of the prefecture-level city, and Huizhou has Hakka walled villages. The Hoklo are concentrated in Boluo County and Huidong County. In Hong...
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    of China in 1949 to Hakka parents.[YN19] His ancestral hometown is Jiaoling County, China.[YN19] His mother, Yeuk Lam Leung, was from Meixian District...
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    administers five county-level divisions, including two districts, one county-level city (administered on behalf of the province) and two counties. These are...
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  • 70,000 soldiers of the Qing army, staging them for an invasion in Jiaoling County. On May 1, 1865, 20,000 Taiping forces surrendered to this army. Li...
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    born in Cuiheng village in Nanlang Township of what was then Xiangshan County. Until 1925, Zhongshan was generally known as Xiangshan or Heung-san (Siangshan)...
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    city Dabu County Fengshun County Jiaoling County Pingyuan County Wuhua County Shanwei Cheng District Lufeng city Haifeng County Luhe County Heyuan Yuancheng...
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    Chao'an County (潮安縣) to avoid ambiguity with the Haiyang County, Shandong. The seat of the 1951 Guangdong People's Government was in Chao'an County. Part...
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    Shire. The imperial government of the Han dynasty (206 BC−220 AD) set Xuwen County as the administrator of the whole Leizhou Peninsula. It was one of the earliest...
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    dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as Xinning or Sunning (新寧), is a county-level city in the southwest of Guangdong province, China. It is administered...
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    city, Dongyuan County, Lianping County, Heping County, Longchuan County etc., it belongs to the Yuezhong dialect group, while in Zijin County and part of...
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    Kaiping (redirect from Kaiping County)
    alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, in local dialect as Hoihen, is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. It is located in the western section...
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    seat of Bao'an County for almost 1700 years was located within the district. In September 1983, Nantou district was established as a county-level district...
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    city Dabu County Fengshun County Jiaoling County Pingyuan County Wuhua County Shanwei Cheng District Lufeng city Haifeng County Luhe County Heyuan Yuancheng...
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  • Ningbo, Zhejiang Xinpu, Jiaoling (新铺镇), a town in Jiaoling County, Meizhou, Guangdong Xinpu, Shimen (新铺乡), a township in Shimen County, Changde, Hunan Xinpu...
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    Nowadays Baiyun District was originally governed by Panyu County (now Panyu District) and Nanhai County (now Nanhai District). However, since 1924, the district...
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    Jiangcheng, Yangjiang (category County-level divisions of Guangdong)
    city Dabu County Fengshun County Jiaoling County Pingyuan County Wuhua County Shanwei Cheng District Lufeng city Haifeng County Luhe County Heyuan Yuancheng...
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