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Kaiping
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Kaiping (), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, 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 (), are often venerated with the title "qiaoxiang" (侨乡), for they are the ancestral homelands of many overseas Chinese, particularly in the United States. Kaiping has a population of 748,777 as of 2020 and an area of . The locals speak a variant of the Sze Yup dialect.
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- Kaiping
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- Hoiping
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- 529300
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- top
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- China Guangdong
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- Location of the Kaiping city centre in Guangdong
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- 250
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- Changsha Subdistrict ()
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- County seat
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- County-level city
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- 250px
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- Dixi Road in Chikan, Kaiping
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- Location of Kaiping City Centre (red) in Kaiping (pink), Guangdong province, and the PRC
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- 250px
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- Country
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- 开平市
- Population
- 748777
- Area
- 1656.94
- Elevation
- 6
- Official website
- www.kaiping.gov.cn
- Image
- 18065-Kaiping (24801351027).jpg
- Dialing code
- 750
- Licence plate code
- 粤J
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Administration
- Geography
- Climate
- Notable people
- Sights
- Kaiping Diaolou
- Chikan
- Miscellaneous
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Kaiping (), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, 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 (), are often venerated with the title "qiaoxiang" (侨乡), for they are the ancestral homelands of many overseas Chinese, particularly in the United States. Kaiping has a population of 748,777 as of 2020 and an area of . The locals speak a variant of the Sze Yup dialect.
==History== During the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), Kaiping was under the administration of Xin'an county () Under the Qing (1649), made up part of the commandery of Shiuhing (Zhaoqing). From 1649 to 1949, the administration centre of Kaiping was Cangcheng (). From 1950 to 1953, the administration center moved to Chikan (). Since 1953, the administration center is Sanbu (). It was promoted to county-level city status in 1993.
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