Houjie Town
Sign in to saveHoujie () is a town under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Dongguan, Guangdong, China. The town spans an area of , has a registered hukou population of 95,055 as of 2008, and a permanent population of 550,807 as of 2020.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Geography of Dongguan and Towns in Guangdong.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town of China
- Part of
- Pearl River Delta
- Official name
- 厚街镇
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Dongguan
- Population
- 438283
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Dialing code
- 769
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- Houjie
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Houjie () is a town under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Dongguan, Guangdong, China. The town spans an area of , has a registered hukou population of 95,055 as of 2008, and a permanent population of 550,807 as of 2020.
== Toponymy == When the area was first established during the Southern Song dynasty, it was known as Houjie (), since one well-known traveler chose to reside in a location behind a major building in town. Later, the town chose to change the first character, as another character pronounced hou () was used in words meaning honest and kind () and abundant ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Houjie Town” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations