Qingyuan

Qingyuan is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong province, China, on the banks of the Bei or North River, formerly romanized as Tsingyun. At 19,015 square kilometres it is the largest prefecture-level division of Guangdong by land area, and it borders Guangzhou and Foshan to the south, Shaoguan to the east and northeast, Zhaoqing to the southwest, and Hunan province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the north. The 2020 census counted 3,969,473 residents, about 1.74 million of them in the urbanized Qingcheng and Qingxin districts, and Cantonese is the main spoken language. The urban area lies just north of the Tropic of Cancer about 60 kilometres from Guangzhou, tied to the Pearl River Delta by Highway 107 and the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, and more than half of the territory is mountainous with a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate.