Xiangqiao District () is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

and the urban area of

Chaozhou Chaozhou ( zh, t=潮州), alternatively Chiuchow, Chaochow or Teochew, is a city in the eastern Guangdong province of China. It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province of Fujian to the east, ...

City,

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 district is named after Xiangzi Bridge (湘子橋, aka Guangji Bridge 廣濟橋), one of the four most famous ancient bridges in China. It borders

Raoping County Raoping County ( postal: Jaoping; ) is a county in eastern Guangdong Province, bordering Fujian Province to the east, facing the South China Sea to the south, Xiangqiao District to the southwest, Chenghai District of Shantou City, Chao'an Distri ...

(饒平縣) to the east,

Chao'an District Chao'an () is a district of Chaozhou City in eastern Guangdong Province in Southern China. It was Chao'an County until June 2013, when it became a district of Chaozhou. The former county was known as 'Haiyang' until 1914. It has an area of and ...

(潮安區) to the west, and

Chenghai District Chenghai (; postal: Tenghai; Teochew: Thěng Hài) is a district of the city of Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. Located at the Han River Delta in the southeast part of Guangdong Province, Chenghai spans from 116°41' to 116°54' E longitud ...

(澄海區) of

Shantou City Shantou, alternately 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 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative a ...

to the south. The district has a total area of 325.35 square kilometers. As of the end of 2023, Xiangqiao District has a permanent residents of 578,400 with an urbanization rate of 89.07%.

Administrative divisions

Xiangqiao District is divided into 5

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and 4 towns. * Taiping subdistrict, 太平街道 * Xixin subdistrict, 西新街道 * Qiaodong subdistrict, 橋東街道 * Chengxi subdistrict, 城西街道 * Fengxin subdistrict, 鳳新街道 * Yixi Town, 意溪鎮 * Lixi Town, 磷溪鎮 * Guantang Town, 官塘鎮 * Tiepu Town, 鐵鋪鎮

References

External links

Official website of the Xiangqiao County Government
County-level divisions of Guangdong Chaozhou {{Chaozhou-geo-stub