Nansha District and Nansha New Area is one of 11
urban districts and a
state-level new area of the
prefecture-level city
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of
Guangzhou
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, the capital of
Guangdong Province,
China
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. It is the home of the present-day
port of Guangzhou
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, as well as the
Nansha Wetland Park
Nansha Wetland Park is a man-made public park in Wanqingsha () in the Nansha, Guangzhou, Nansha District of Guangzhou, China.
Names
Nansha Wetland Park is sometimes known as the "Kidney of Guangzhou". and as the "Paradise of Birds"..
Grounds
T ...
.
The
Nansha Technology Development Zone was carved out of
Panyu District
Panyu, Postal Map Romanization, formerly romanized as Punyü, is one of 11 District (China), urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. Since January 1975, Panyu County has bee ...
in 1993. In 2005, it was named Nansha District. In September 2012, Nansha was designated a
State-level New Area as Nansha New Area, the sixth such area.
New area
Nansha is the newly established
state-level new area (
special economic and political administration zone) under the direct control of Guangzhou Municipal Government in September 2012.
In September 2012 Nansha New Area was approved by the State Council of China's Central Government as the sixth
state-level new area (followed by
Pudong
Pudong is a list of administrative divisions of Shanghai, district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu River, Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank (g ...
of Shanghai,
Binhai of Tianjin,
Liangjiang of Chongqing,
Zhoushan of Zhejiang, and
Lanzhou New Area, Gansu), which is also the first state-level new development area in South Central China.
Geography
Nansha District is located at the southernmost end of
Guangzhou City,
Guangdong Province, facing
Dongguan City across the river in the east, bordering
Zhongshan City and
Shunde District in
Foshan City in the west, connecting with
Panyu District
Panyu, Postal Map Romanization, formerly romanized as Punyü, is one of 11 District (China), urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. Since January 1975, Panyu County has bee ...
in
Guangzhou City across the water with the Shawan Waterway as the boundary, and adjacent to Lingding, the outlet of the
Pearl River in the south. Ocean, between 22°26′～23°06′ north latitude and 113°13′～113°43′ east longitude, with a total area of 803 square kilometers.
Administrative divisions
Transportation
Metro
Nansha is currently served by 2 metro lines operated by
Guangzhou Metro
The Guangzhou Metro ( zh, s=广州地铁, labels=no) is the rapid transit system of the city of Guangzhou in the Guangdong Province of China. It is operated by the state-owned Guangzhou Metro Corporation and was the fourth metro system to be b ...
:
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Dongchong,
Qingsheng,
Huangge Auto Town,
Huangge,
Jiaomen,
Jinzhou, , , ,
Tangkeng, ,
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Gallery
File:GD 廣東 Guangdong 廣州 Guangzhou 南沙區 Nansha 天后廟山 Tianhou Temple 媽祖聖像 Mazu stone statue June 2023 Px3 07.jpg, Nansha Tianhou Palace
File:GD 廣東 Guangdong 廣州 Guangzhou 南沙區 Nansha Marina 南沙遊艇會所 Clubhouse 碼頭 piers June 2023 Px3 15.jpg, Nansha Marina
File:GD 廣東 Guangdong 廣州 Guangzhou 南沙區 Nansha 蒲州花園 Pouzau Garden June 2023 Px3 13.jpg, Puzhou Garden
See also
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Chinese cutter ''Nansha'' - named for the district
References
External links
Official website of Nansha District government
{{Authority control
Districts of Guangzhou