Shanwei
Sign in to saveShanwei (), or Swabue, or also sometimes known as Hailufeng (, portmanteau of Haifeng and Lufeng) is a resort city in eastern Guangdong province, China. It borders Jieyang to the east, Meizhou and Heyuan to the north, Huizhou to the west, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south. It lies approximately east of Shenzhen and most of the locals speak the Haifeng dialect, a variety of Southern Min.
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- Shanwei
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- 汕尾市
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- zh-Hans
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- Swabue
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Shanwei
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- Guangdong subdivisions - Shanwei.svg
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- Location of Shanwei in Guangdong
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- China
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- right
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- Location in China
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- Country
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- People's Republic of China
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- Province
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- Guangdong
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Shanwei (), or Swabue, or also sometimes known as Hailufeng (, portmanteau of Haifeng and Lufeng) is a resort city in eastern Guangdong province, China. It borders Jieyang to the east, Meizhou and Heyuan to the north, Huizhou to the west, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south. It lies approximately east of Shenzhen and most of the locals speak the Haifeng dialect, a variety of Southern Min.
==History== Shanwei City was established in 1988. It was politically administered as part of Huizhoufu (惠州府) by the Ming and Qing empires, Shanwei it gained its prefectural and administrative independence from Huizhou during the Nationalist period.