Yangchun, alternately

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as Yeungchun, is a

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in southwestern

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) ...

, China, administered as a part of the

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Yangjiang Yangjiang (, ), alternately romanized as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north, Jiangmen to the east, and looks out to the ...

. Yangchun has an area of and had approximately 1.05 million inhabitants in 2003.

History

Under the

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, made up part of the

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Zhaoqing Zhaoqing (), alternately romanized as Shiuhing, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, China. As of the 2020 census, its population was 4,113,594, with 1,553,109 living in the built-up (or metro) area made of Duanzhou, Dinghu a ...

Administrative divisions

Yangchun is divided into the urban quarter Chuncheng () and fifteen towns (). The municipalities are: * 河塱镇 Helang Town * 松柏镇 Songbai Town * 石望镇 Shiwang Town * 春湾镇 Chunwan Town * 合水镇 Heshui Town * 陂面镇 Baimian Town * 圭岗镇 Kyu Kong Town * 永宁镇 Yongning Town * 马水镇 Mashui Town * 岗美镇 Gangmei Town * 河口镇 Hekou Town * 潭水镇 Tanshui Town * 三甲镇 Sanjia Town * 双滘镇 Shuangjiao Town * 八甲镇 Bajia Town

Climate

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Bibliography

* * , reprinted 2000. County-level cities in Guangdong Yangjiang {{Guangdong-geo-stub