Jiedong District (;
Teochew: gêg4 dong1 ku1), formerly Jiedong County, is a district of eastern
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
province, China. It is under the administration of
Jieyang
Jieyang ( zh, s=揭阳, p=Jiēyáng, t=揭陽; Chaozhou dialect: gig4 iên5; Jieyang dialect: gêg4 ion5) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong Province (Yuedong), People's Republic of China, part of the Chaoshan region whose peopl ...
City. According to the 2020 Chinese census, the district has a population of 931,719 under its ''
hukou
''Hukou'' ( zh, c=户口, l=household individual) is a system of household registration used in the People's Republic of China. The system itself is more properly called ''huji'' ( zh, c=户籍, l=household origin), and has origins in Histo ...
''(household registration) system. Amongst them, 507,382 are downtown residents.
Administrative divisions
Jiedong District has 2 sub-districts and 11 towns under its jurisdiction:
*Quxi sub-district (),
*Pandong sub-district (),
*Yunlu Town (),
*
Yujiao Town
Yujiao Town () is located in south east China. It is a township-level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of Jiedong District, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province.
Yujiao Town has a population of 46,361 (according to the census in 2010) an ...
(),
*Linpan Town (),
*Yuecheng Town (),
*Baita Town (),
*Longwei Town (),
*Guiling Town (),
*Xichang Town (),
*Xin Heng Town (),
*Yuhu Town (),
*Putian Town (),
*Dongjing Tea Farm (),
*Pingshang Farm (),
*Saling Farm ().
Places of Interest
* Huangqishan Forest Park, the largest natural ecological park in Jieyang City
* Jiedong
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 designe ...
(客家圍龍屋), a well-preserved Hakka settlement
* Jiedong District is one of the Hakka settlements and has preserved a large number of Hakka dragon houses.
* Longtan Ancient Town, a well-preserved ancient village.
* Jiedong Guang'an Temple, a temple built in Qing dynasty
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Guangdong
Guangdong, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions.
Administrative divisions
All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at political divisions of China. Th ...
References
County-level divisions of Guangdong
Jieyang
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