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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.

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