Nanhai, Foshan

Nanhai, Foshan
Nanhai, Foshan
Simplified Chinese	南海なんがい区く
Traditional Chinese	南海なんがい區く
Jyutping	naam4 hoi2 keoi1
Cantonese Yale	Nàahmhói Kēui
Hanyu Pinyin	Nánhǎi Qū
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nánhǎi Qū
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Nàahmhói Kēui
Jyutping	naam4 hoi2 keoi1
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese	南海なんかい
Jyutping	naam4 hoi2
Cantonese Yale	Nàahmhói
Hanyu Pinyin	Nánhǎi
Postal	Namhoi
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nánhǎi
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Nàahmhói
Jyutping	naam4 hoi2

Nanhai

南海なんがい区く
Namhoi
Nanhai 南海なんがい区く Namhoi
District
	Guicheng Subdistrict in Nanhai
	Coordinates: 23°05′46″N 113°08′34″E / 23.09611°N 113.14278°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Guangdong
Prefecture-level city	Foshan
Area
• Total	1,074 km2 (415 sq mi)
Population (2020 Census)
• Total	3,667,247
• Density	3,400/km2 (8,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	528200
Website	http://www.nanhai.gov.cn/

Nanhai District (simplified Chinese: 南海なんがい区く; traditional Chinese: 南海なんがい區く), is a district of Foshan, Guangdong, China. Its government is the first to have developed e-government informatization at the county level in China.

Statue of Guan Yin on Mount Xiqiao, in Nanhai

History

Establishment of Nanhai is traditionally attributed two brothers carrying their father's bowls in 1271. They were fleeing south from the Mongols on a bamboo raft when a violent storm shipwrecked them and broke all the bowls. The brothers settled down there and the position of the wreck is commemorated by a shrine. This area was named Broken Bowls Point.

On 15 February 1921, the eastern part of Nanhai County was ceded to the newly established City of Guangzhou which became part of what is now western part of Liwan. On 26 June 1951, Foshan Town (present Chancheng) was ceded to the newly established City of Foshan. Nanhai County was upgraded into a county-level city on 2 September 1992 until 8 December 2002 Nanhai was consolidated as a district of Foshan.

Administration division

Nanhai was a county-level city until December 8, 2002, when it became a district of Foshan prefecture-level city.

Name	Chinese (S)	Hanyu Pinyin	Population (2010)^[1]	Area (km²)
Guicheng Subdistrict	桂城けいじょう街道かいどう	Guìchéng Jiēdào	542,775	84.16
Lishui town	里さと水すい镇	Lǐshuǐ Zhèn	273,914	75.38
Jiujiang town	九きゅう江え镇	Jiǔjiāng Zhèn	170,179	94.75
Danzao town	丹に灶镇	Dānzào Zhèn	154,955	143.50
Dali town	大だい沥镇	Dàlì Zhèn	614,837	95.90
Shishan town	狮山镇	Shīshān Zhèn	610,514	330.60
Xiqiao town	西にし樵きこり镇	Xiqiáo Zhèn	221,670	176.63

E-government

Nanhai was designated by the central government as a pilot city for e-government and informatization in 2001.

Notable people

Kang Tongbi
Kang Youwei
Lin Liang
Wong Fei Hung
Ip Man
Tony Leung Ka-fai
Antonio Ng
Tan Sri Datuk Amar Stephen Kalong Ningkan
Zhan Tianyou
Zhong Naixiong

References

^ shi, Guo wu yuan ren kou pu cha ban gong; council, Guo jia tong ji ju ren kou he jiu ye tong ji si bian = Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township / compiled by Population census office under the state; population, Department of; statistics, employment statistics national bureau of (2012). Zhongguo 2010 nian ren kou pu cha fen xiang, zhen, jie dao zi liao (Di 1 ban. ed.). Beijing Shi: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

Mango Kwan's site contains pictures and history (in Chinese)

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[1] shi, Guo wu yuan ren kou pu cha ban gong; council, Guo jia tong ji ju ren kou he jiu ye tong ji si bian = Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township / compiled by Population census office under the state; population, Department of; statistics, employment statistics national bureau of (2012). Zhongguo 2010 nian ren kou pu cha fen xiang, zhen, jie dao zi liao (Di 1 ban. ed.). Beijing Shi: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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