Chaoyang District (
postal: Chaoyang; ) is a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
in the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
of
Shantou
Shantou, Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 20 ...
,
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
Province
A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
, China.
Administration
Population figures given as of the 2003 census.
Subdistricts (街道, ''jiedao'')
* Wenguang () - pop. 146649
* Mianbei () - pop. 54942
* Chengnan () - pop. 108651
* Jinpu () - pop. 79252
Towns (镇, ''zhen'')
*
Haimen () - pop. 115221
* Guanbu () - pop. 121930
* Heping () - pop. 162174
* Gurao () - pop. 135628
*
Guiyu () - pop. 133727
* Tongyu () - pop. 116044
* Jinyu () - pop. 77977
* Zaopu () - pop. 49406
* Xilu () - pop. 154725
* Hexi () - pop. 79155
Famous natives
*
Chin Sophonpanich, founder of Bangkok Bank
*
Cai Chusheng
Cai Chusheng (January 12, 1906 – July 15, 1968) was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era, and was the first Chinese director to win an international film award at the Moscow International Film Festival. Best known for his progres ...
(1906–1968), film director
*
Huang Guangyu, Chinese billionaire
* Rocky Cheng Kin Lok (鄭健樂), maturity winner of the
Mr. Hong Kong contest in 2005
*
Lim Por-yen
Lim Por-yen（21 December 1914 – 18 February 2005) was a Hong Kong industrialist. He founded the Lai Sun Group, and his family was the biggest shareholder of Asia Television.
Biography
Lim was born in Chaoyang, Shantou, on 21 December 1 ...
(林百欣, 1914–2005)
*
Bernard Charnwut Chan (陳智思)
*
Chan Kam-lam (陳鑑林)
*
Ma Wing-shing
Ma Wing-shing (born 16 January 1961) is a Hong Kong manhua artist, writer and publisher. He is best known for creating the ''Fung Wan'' and ''Chinese Hero'' series.
Biography
Ma quit his studies and became a comic artist in 1976 at the age o ...
(馬榮成)
*
Frederick Ma
Frederick Ma Si-hang is a Hong Kong politician and administrator who was chairman of the MTR Corporation from 2015 to 2019.
As a former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the Special Administrative Region of the People's Rep ...
(馬時亨)
Climate
References
External links
Official site, in simplified Chinese
Shantou
County-level divisions of Guangdong
{{Guangdong-geo-stub