Jiangnan () is a
subdistrict A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district.
Equivalents
* Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language
* Kelurahan, in Indonesia
* Mukim, a township in Brunei, Ind ...
of the
Meijiang District
Meijiang () is a district of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China.
Administrative divisions
* Subdistricts ():
** Jinshan ()
** Jiangnan ()
** Xijiao ()
*Towns:
**Changsha ()
** Sanjiao ()
** Chengbei ()
Ethno-linguistic make-up
Meijiang is ...
,
Meizhou
Meizhou ( zh, t=梅州, Hakka Chinese: Mòichû) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, China. It has an area of , and a population of 3,873,239 as of the 2020 census. It comprises Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xing ...
City, Guangdong, China.
The municipal government,
Intermediate Court and
CPC and
PSB are all located in Jiangnan.
Historically, Jiangnan and its neighbour
Jiangbei formed the urban core of
Meixian District
Meixian District () is a district of Meizhou City, in northeastern Guangdong Province, China. The district is an important Hakka settlement and is the ancestral home of many Hakka descendants living in Taiwan and other countries worldwide.
...
, from which both Jiangbei and Jiangnan were carved according to the new systems of territorial administration following the 1949 Revolution. Both names refer to the
Mei River
The Mei River ( Chinese: 梅 江; Pinyin: Méi Jiāng) is a river in Meizhou City in the eastern part of the Guangdong province in southern China and a tributary of the Han River.
Major bridges over it include the Jianying Memorial Bridge. It ...
(Méi Jiāng in
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...
), which forms a large
ox-bow lake
An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake or pool that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water. The word "oxbow" can also refer to a U-shaped bend in a river or stream, whether or not it is cut off from th ...
nearby. Jiangnan is on the right as one proceeds downstream, Jiangbei is on the left.
The two districts are linked by many road and foot bridges.
References
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Township-level divisions of Guangdong
Meizhou
Subdistricts of the People's Republic of China