Maoming
Maoming ( Chinese 茂名 市 , Pinyin Màomíng Shì ) is a district-free city in the predominantly Yue- speaking province of Guangdong in the People's Republic of China . The administrative area of Maoming has an area of 11,459 km² and approximately 6.123 million inhabitants (end of 2016). 1.03 million people live in the actual urban settlement area of Maoming (2010 census). The Maoming dialect of the Yue belongs to the Gaoyang dialect group (高 陽 方言 片), which is mainly distributed in Yangjiang and the Leizhou Peninsula .
Administrative structure
At the county level, Maoming is made up of two boroughs and three independent cities . These are:
- (1) Maonan district (茂南区), 487 km², 710,000 inhabitants, center, seat of the city government;
- (2 + 6) Dianbai district (电 白区), 2,275 km², 1.71 million inhabitants (end of 2004);
- (3) City Huazhou (化州市), 2,354 square kilometers, 1.42 million inhabitants (end of 2003);
- (4) Xinyi City (信宜市), 3,081 km², 1.24 million inhabitants (end of 2002);
- (5) Gaozhou City (高 州市), 3,276 km², 1.50 million inhabitants.
Personalities
- Tan Liangde , water diver and Olympic medal winner
Web links
Commons : Maoming - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ 茂名 概况 ( Memento from November 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ China: Guangdong. Accessed February 5, 2018 .
- ↑ 茂南区 基本 概况 ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 茂港区 基本 概况 ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 化 州市 基本 概况 ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 信宜市 基本 概况 ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 高 州市 基本 概况 ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 21 ° 55 ' N , 110 ° 52' E