Gaotou
| Gāotóu Xiāng 高 头 乡 Gaotou |
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| Coordinates | 24 ° 39 '46 " N , 117 ° 0' 30" E | ||
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| Country | People's Republic of China | ||
| Fujian | |||
| District-free city | Longyan | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CN-FJ | ||
| Borough | Yongding | ||
| surface | 30 km² | ||
| Residents | 10,118 (2015) | ||
| density | 337.3 Ew. / km² | ||
 View over Gaotou, taken in March 2012
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Gaotou is a municipality in the southeast of the People's Republic of China . It belongs to the administrative area of the Yongding District , which in turn is subordinate to the prefecture-level City of Longyan in Fujian Province . The municipality of Gaotou administers an area of 30 square kilometers with 520 hectares of agricultural land and a total population of 10,118 people in 2015. The 2000 population census showed a total population of 7,259 people in 2,197 households, of whom 3,637 men and 3,622 women.
Gaotou is divided into five villages at the village level : Gaodong (高 东村), Gaobei (高 北 村), Gaonan (高 南村), Dalingxia (大 岭下 村), Meihuashi (梅花 石村). These combine 82 village settlements.
Gaotou is home to a large number of Tulou , which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites . It is the place of origin of the ancestors of around 27,000 overseas Chinese .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 行政 区划.龙岩 市 永定区 人民政府, January 2, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 (Chinese).
- ↑ 福建省 乡 、 镇 、 街道 人口. State Statistical Office of the People's Republic of China , accessed June 18, 2019 (Chinese).
- ↑ 高 头 乡. State Statistical Office of the People's Republic of China , accessed June 18, 2019 (Chinese).