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Luoding, is a
county-level city A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...
in the northwestern part of
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 (粤北), South China. It is administered as part of the
prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...
of
Yunfu Yunfu (), postal map romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as Wanfow, and historically known as Dong'an (), which was postal map romanization, formerly romanized as Tong On, from 1578 to 1913, is a prefecture-level city in we ...
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History

As early as 10,000 years ago, there were ancient people inhabited within Luoding City. Famous monument is the rock carving called Long Anyan Grottoes ().


Geography

Luoding borders
Guangxi Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...
to the northwest.


Notable people

* Cai Tingkai (蔡廷鍇), born in 1892, died in 1968, was a Chinese general. * Cheung Ka Nien (張嘉年), Hong Kong actor, mr cheung is the main cast of the film: suk suk * Tang Chun Kit (鄧俊傑), Hong Kong male historian, his research interest is the philosophy of scholar Zhan Ruo Shui (湛若水).


Climate


See also

* 2009 Luoding flood


Notes


References


External links

County-level cities in Guangdong Yunfu {{Guangdong-geo-stub