Yamen () is a

town 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 ori ...

in the south of

Xinhui District Xinhui, alternately romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang, is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong, China. It grew from a separate city founded at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers. It has a population of about 735,500, ...

Jiangmen Jiangmen (), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China. As of the 2020 census, its three urban districts, plus Heshan City being conurbated, with 2,657,662 inhabitants ar ...

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 China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It covers an area of , and had a population of 41,605 per the 2000 Chinese Census.

History

In 1279, the

Battle of Yamen The naval battle, naval Battle of Yamen () (also known as the Naval Battle of Mount Ya; ) took place on 19 March 1279 and is considered to be the last stand of the Song dynasty against the invading Mongols, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. Although out ...

took place in the area between the navies of the

Song dynasty The Song dynasty (; ; 960–1279) was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou. The Song conquered the rest ...

and the

Yuan dynasty The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fifth ...

. In 1955, Yamen was placed under the jurisdiction of the now-defunct Anxi District (). In 1958, Yamen was divided into Yaxi Township () and Tongnan Township (). In 1984, these became Yaxi District () and Yanan District (). Two years later, Yaxi and Yanan became

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 ori ...

. On June 22, 2002, the

State Council of the People's Republic of China The State Council, constitutionally synonymous with the Central People's Government since 1954 (particularly in relation to local governments), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the p ...

passed a law which changed

Xinhui Xinhui, alternately romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang, is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong, China. It grew from a separate city founded at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers. It has a population of about 735,500, ...

from a

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to a

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, and merged Yaxi and Yanan into the town of Yamen ().

Administrative divisions

Yamen administers 2 residential communities () and 17 administrative villages (). In addition to administrative villages, Yamen includes a number of natural villages (), such as , which have no administrative jurisdiction.

Residential communities

The 2 residential communities governed by Yamen are Yaxi Community () and Yanan Community ().

Villages

The following 17 administrative villages are governed by Yamen: * Tianshui Village () * Huangchong Village () * Jingbei Village () * Jingmei Village () * Nanhe Village () * Dongnan Village () * Dongbei Village () * Shuibei Village () * Kengkou Village () * Jiaobeishi Village () * Tianbian Village () * Gudou Village () * Tiannan Village () * Hengshui Village () * Longwang Village () * Mingping Village () * Lianghuangwu Village ()

Demographics

According to the 2000 Chinese Census, Yaxi and Yanan, the two former

which comprise present-day Yamen, had populations of 29,634 and 11,971, respectively. Combined, these populations total 41,605. As of 1996, Yaxi and Yanan had areas of and , respectively, and populations of about 31,000 and 9,000, respectively. This gives contemporary Yamen an area of , and a population of 40,000, as of 1996.

Tourism

Major tourist sites in Yamen include and .

Transportation

connects the

to neighboring .

References

Xinhui District Towns in Guangdong {{Guangdong-geo-stub