Chaoyang District (
postal: Chaoyang; ) is a
district
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in the
municipality
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The term ''municipality ...
of
Shantou
Shantou, Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2 ...
,
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
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, China.
Administration
Population figures given as of the 2003 census.
Subdistricts (街道, ''jiedao'')
* Wenguang () - pop. 146649
* Mianbei () - pop. 54942
* Chengnan () - pop. 108651
* Jinpu () - pop. 79252
Towns (镇, ''zhen'')
*
Haimen
Haimen (, Qihai dialect: , Shanghai: ) is a district of Nantong, Jiangsu province, with a population of approximately 1 million. It is located at the opposite side of the Yangtze River to Shanghai and is directly north of Chongming Island except ...
() - pop. 115221
* Guanbu () - pop. 121930
* Heping () - pop. 162174
* Gurao () - pop. 135628
*
Guiyu () - pop. 133727
* Tongyu () - pop. 116044
* Jinyu () - pop. 77977
* Zaopu () - pop. 49406
* Xilu () - pop. 154725
* Hexi () - pop. 79155
Famous natives
*
Chin Sophonpanich
Chin Sophonpanich ( th, ชิน โสภณพนิช; ; 10 November 1910 – 4 January 1988) was a Thai entrepreneur who founded Bangkok Bank and Bangkok Insurance.
Biography
Chin was born in Wat Sai quarter in Thonburi Province (curre ...
, founder of Bangkok Bank
*
Cai Chusheng
Cai Chusheng (January 12, 1906 – July 15, 1968) was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era, and was the first Chinese director to win an international film award at the Moscow International Film Festival. Best known for his progres ...
(1906–1968), film director
*
Huang Guangyu, Chinese billionaire
* Rocky Cheng Kin Lok (鄭健樂), maturity winner of the
Mr. Hong Kong contest in 2005
Climate
References
External links
Official site, in simplified Chinese
Shantou
County-level divisions of Guangdong
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