Kaiping
Kaiping (Chinese: 开平), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, 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. Kaiping has a population of 688,242 as of 2017 and an area of 1,659 square kilometres (641 sq mi). The locals speak a variant of the Sze Yup dialect.
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 | |
Kaiping Location of the Kaiping city centre in Guangdong | |
| Coordinates: 22°22′38″N 112°41′54″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 |
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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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