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Dongguan
Guangdong, China · Asia
About Dongguan
Dongguan sits on the route: 20 minutes from Shijie.
Dongguan is in Guangdong, China, with about 9.6 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Shijie, about 10 km away.
Dongguan is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the south, and the Pearl River to the west. It is part of the Pearl River DeltaRead more
built-up (or metro) area with more than 65.57 million inhabitants as of the 2020 census spread over nine municipalities across an area of 19,870 square kilometers (7,670 sq mi).
Dongguan's city administration is considered especially progressive in seeking foreign direct investment. Dongguan ranks behind only Shenzhen, Shanghai and Suzhou in exports among Chinese cities, with $65.54 billion in shipments. It is also home to one of the world's largest shopping malls, the New South China Mall, which is seeing increased activity. The city is geographically and thus culturally Cantonese in the Weitou form as well as culturally Hakka in the prefectures of Fenggang and Qingxi; the majority of the 21st century population speaks Mandarin due to the large influx of economic migrants from other parts of China. The city is home to several universities, including Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Guangdong Medical University and Dongguan University of Technology.
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The nearest famous roads are Guia Circuit.
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Dongguan is in Guangdong, China, about 10 km from Shijie.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 9,644,871
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Guangdong
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 23.0180, 113.7487
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Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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