Chaojing () is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
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Taishan __NOTOC__
Taishan may refer to:
*Mount Tai or Taishan (), Shandong, China
* Taishan District, Tai'an (), named after the Mount Tai, a district in Tai'an, Shandong, China
*Taishan, Guangdong (), a county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
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County, Jiangmen Prefecture,
Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
Province,
China. It is located northwest of Taishan City from
Baisha City.
Though identified as a village () in some government documents, it is a true town, having a hospital, a high school, a public market, a post office, a rural agricultural bank branch, an automobile dealership, and other services.
History
Chaojing is a common reference point for many overseas Chinese when talking about where they came from. In the 19th and early 20th Centuries, most Chinese emigrants worldwide came from Taishan County or nearby, many of them out of the broad rural area around Chaojing.
In the local Taishanese dialect, the town is known as CHAO GEIN. On pre-1949 maps, Chaojing is labeled as Ch'ao-Ching. In some online maps, it may be unlabeled or called Chaoxingli.
Environment
Chaojing is in a hilly rural part of Taishan County that grows rice. It can be reached by County Road x553, which splits off to the southwest from Provincial Highway s274 just below Sanbu ("Three Ports") along the Tanjiang River. Chaojing is right at the bend of x553 when it turns sharply southwest toward Baisha City. It is governmentally part of Baisha Township in Taishan County.
See also
List of township-level divisions of Guangdong
This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative div ...
References
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Towns in Guangdong
Taishan, Guangdong