Longnan () is a

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under the jurisdiction of

Ganzhou Ganzhou (), alternately romanized as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong District. Hist ...

Municipality, in the far southwest of

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

province, China, bordering

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 to the south.

Administrative divisions

In the present, Longnan City has 8 towns and 5 townships. ;8 towns ;5 townships

Traditional
vernacular architecture Vernacular architecture is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. This category encompasses a wide range and variety of building types, with differing methods of construction, from around the world, bo ...

Longnan is notable for the variety of traditional

Hakka walled village A Hakka walled village ( zh, 围龙屋) is a large multi-family communal living structure that is designed to be easily defensible. This building style is unique to the Hakka people found in southern China. Walled villages are typically designed ...

s in Jiangxi. By one count, there are around 370 of them within the city's boundaries.Chen Liang
Another cluster of Tulou in Longnan of Jiangxi bordering Fujian
''China Daily''. Published on www.whatsonxiamen.com on 2008-07-19 They are known locally as ''weiwu'' () or ''wei'' (); Longnan is also regarded as "the Hometown of Weiwu in China

Some of the most famous weiwu are Guangxi Wei 百度百科-关西围屋 and Yanyiwe

Some researchers call them "Jiangxi ''

tulou A tulou (), or "earthen building", is a traditional communal Hakka people residence found in Fujian, in South China, usually of a circular configuration surrounding a central shrine, and part of Hakka architecture. These vernacular structur ...

''" (literally, "

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earthen buildings"), as opposed to the better known Fujian ''tulou''. (Revised edition)

Climate

Famous people from Longnan

* Wang Sheng, a

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general, and in his later life, Taiwan's ambassador to

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