Kaiping
开平市 Hoiping | |
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![]() Dixi Road in Chikan, Kaiping | |
![]() Location of Kaiping City Centre (red) in Kaiping (pink), Guangdong province, and the PRC | |
Coordinates: 22°22′38″N 112°41′54″E / 22.3773°N 112.6982°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Guangdong |
Prefecture-level city | Jiangmen |
County seat | Changsha Subdistrict (长沙街道) |
Area | |
• Total | 1,659 km2 (641 sq mi) |
Population (2017 census) | |
• Total | 688,242 |
• Density | 410/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 529300 |
Area code | 0750 |
Website | www |
Kaiping | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 开平 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 開平 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Taishanese | Hoi3-pen6 (local) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Kāipíng | ||||||||||||||||||||
Postal | Hoiping | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kaiping (simplified Chinese: 开平; traditional Chinese: 開平), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping,[a] in local dialect as Hoihen, is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. It is located in the western section of the Pearl River Delta and administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. The surrounding area, especially Sze Yup (Chinese: 四邑), is the ancestral homeland of many overseas Chinese, particularly in the United States.[2] Kaiping has a population of 688,242 as of 2017 and an area of 1,659 square kilometres (641 sq mi).[3] The locals speak a variant of the Sze Yup dialect.
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