Nantou is a
town
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
situated at the northern periphery of the city of
Zhongshan
Zhongshan ( zh, c=中山 ), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Chungshan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is n ...
,
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. The population of Nantou has 130,712 residents. The total area of the town is .
Transportation
Nantou is served by
Nantou railway station on the
Guangzhou–Zhuhai intercity railway as well as Guangdong Provincial Expressway 43 (S43; ).
See also
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Shatian dialect
Satinese (Saatinwaa in Satinese, Shatianhua in Guoyu) is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It is spoken by roughly half of the population of Chungsan (Zhongshan), Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the ...
References
External links
Nantou Government Website
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Zhongshan
Township-level divisions of Guangdong