Yangjiang, also romanized via Cantonese as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province, China, bordering Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north and Jiangmen to the east, and facing the South China Sea to the south. The local dialect is the Gaoyang dialect, a branch of Yue Chinese. At the 2020 census its population was 2,602,959, of whom 1,292,987 lived in the built-up and largely urbanized area comprising Jiangcheng District and Yangdong District. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Sources
1. Yangjiang (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 2,602,959 (2020)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 21.85563, longitude 111.96272
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 4 m
P2046 (area)
area 7955.87 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 2602959 (2020)
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Yangjiang (simplified Chinese: 阳江; traditional Chinese: 陽江), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China.
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