Dabu County () is a
county in
Meizhou
Meizhou (, Hakka Chinese: Mòichû) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, China. It has an area of , and a population of 3,873,239 million as of the 2020 census. It comprises Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xingning Cit ...
City, in the east of Guangdong Province, China. A center of
Hakka
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...
culture, it has a population of 375,000.
Famous natives
This is the ancestral hometown of 1st Guyana President
Arthur Chung
Arthur Raymond Chung (10 January 1918 – 23 June 2008) was the 1st President of Guyana from 1970 to 1980. even though the Indians are the majority of Guyana.
70% of
Singapore's 300,000-strong Hakka community are descended from emigrants from Dabu County, including the great-grandfather of Singapore's founding father and first
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Ethno-linguistic make-up
Dabu is noted for its large
Hakka
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...
population.
Administrative divisions
Dabu County has jurisdiction over the following
towns
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 or ...
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Huliao ()
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Gaopi ()
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Chayang ()
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Dama ()
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Sanhe ()
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Yinjiang
Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County () also known in Tujia language as "Yinv jiangr Bif Ziv Kar hev Bef Kar zouf xengv xianr" is a county in the northeast of Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level cit ...
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Guangde ()
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Taoyuan ()
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Fenglang ()
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Dadong ()
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Xihe ()
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Qingxi ()
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Zhourui ()
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Baihou
Baihou Town () is a town under the administration of Dabu County, Meizhou, 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 capit ...
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The administrative center of the county was originally in the ancient town of Chayang before moving to Huliao.
Climate
References
External links
Official website of the Dabu government
County-level divisions of Guangdong
Meizhou
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