Zhongshan
Province
Zhongshan (Chinese中山 市) is a prefecture -level city in Guangdong Province, China.
General data
Zhongshan, with an area of 1,800 km ² ( 1.1 % of the area of Guangdong ) is the second smallest of the 21 prefecture-level cities of Guangdong. It has 1.38 million inhabitants (1.66 % of the population of Guangdong ). The population density is 767 people per km ². Zhongshan is the origin of about 700,000 overseas Chinese and residents of Hong Kong and Macao.
History
In the Tang Dynasty, the area now Zhongshan, which was then called Xiangshan (香山) belonged to the then district Dongguan (东莞 县). In 1152, during the Song Dynasty, it was separated and an independent county Xiangshan (香山 县) made . 1866, the Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman Sun Yat-sen ( China better known as Sun Zhongshan ) in the former village Cuiheng (翠亨村) of today's large community Nanlang (南朗 镇) was born. After his death in 1925 the county in his honor in Zhongshan District (中山 县) has been renamed. 1961, the District Zhuhai (珠海 县) from Zhongshan has been solved. In the following years he had to give more space to the surrounding circles so that he had in 1979 lost about 43 % of its original area. 1983, the Zhongshan District has been transformed into a city that was collected in January 1988 on the prefecture-level city. The house Sun Zhongshans is today a major tourist attraction of the city and is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China.
Administrative Divisions
Although Zhongshan is a prefecture-level city, it was not divided into more administrative units at the county level ( municipalities, counties, county -level cities). In Zhongshan county and district level form a unit that was politically - administratively located at the district level. At the community level, Zhongshan is composed of six road districts and 18 large municipalities. These are:
- Road district Shiqi (石岐 街道);
- Road district Dongqu (东区 街道);
- Road district Xiqu (西区 街道);
- Road district Huancheng (环城 街道);
- Road district Zhongshangang (中山 港 街道);
- Road district Wuguishan (五 桂山 街道);
- Greater community Gangkou (港口 镇);
- Greater community sanjiao (三角 镇);
- Greater community Minzhong (民众 镇);
- Greater community Nanlang (南朗 镇);
- Greater community Sanxiang (三 乡镇);
- Greater community Tanzhou (坦洲镇);
- Greater community Shenwan (神 湾镇);
- Greater community Banfu (板芙镇);
- Greater community Dayong (大 涌 镇);
- Large village Shaxi (沙 溪镇);
- Greater community Henglan (横 栏 镇);
- Greater community Guzhen (古镇 镇);
- Greater community Xiaolan (小榄镇);
- Greater community Dongfeng (东 凤 镇);
- Greater community Nantou (南 头镇);
- Greater community Fusha (阜 沙镇);
- Greater community Huangpu (黄 圃 镇);
- Greater community Dongsheng (东升镇).
Geography
Zhongshan is located in the Pearl River delta, on the western shore of the estuary of the river in the South China Sea. It borders the prefectures of Guangzhou and Foshan in the north, Jiangmen to the west and Zhuhai in the south. The climate is subtropical and oceanic in Zhongshan. The average temperature in January is 13.3 ° C and in July 28.4 ° C. The rainfall per year and square meter amounted to 1748.3 mm.
Others
In Zhongshan, a lamp museum is in the form of a huge lamp in construction.