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Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow [3] [4] and sometimes known as Santow, [5] is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative area of 2,248.39 square kilometres (868.11 sq mi).
Shantou University, or STU, is located in the Sangpu Mountain area of Shantou City. It is jointly established by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the People's Government of Guangdong Province and the Li Ka Shing Foundation. The campus covers a total area of 1,889.28 mu and a total built area of 566,000 square meters.
Chaoshan then became the general name for three prefecture-level cities: Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang. Chaozhou and Shantou have agglomerated into a single, dense metropolitan area, which is among China's most densely populated. [6] It is Guangdong's second largest metropolitan area, after the Guangzhou-centered Pearl River Delta. Chaozhou is ...
The Ancient City covers 0.014 square kilometers, and is the only well-preserved city in China, dating from the Qing Dynasty. In 1939, during World War II, Japanese armies occupied the area. In the Chinese Civil War, Dahao Ancient City was a stronghold of Communist Party forces. After 1950, Dahao Ancient City was rebuilt and became a tourist ...
The site the district stands on is the old city of Shantou established by Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty in AD 1369, with the name derived from Shashantou Fort built in the city 4 centuries later. The Jinping administrative district was established in 2003, and serves as a major hub for manufacturing, shipping and tourism.
In Kingshan village of Shen'ao town, there is an ancient wall about 5 meters high and more than 40 meters long, which is the only section of the Ming dynasty wall left in Nan'ao. It records its important history of coastal defense. The wall was repaired and renovated in 2015, around which an ancient city park was built.
Chenghai (Chinese: 澄海; pinyin: Chénghǎi; postal: Tenghai; Teochew: Thěng Hài) is a district of the city of Shantou, Guangdong Province, China.. Located at the Han River Delta in the southeast part of Guangdong Province, Chenghai spans from 116°41' to 116°54' E longitude and 23°23' to 23°38' N latitude.
Queshi Church was founded in 1863 by Rev. William Ashmore DD, a North American Baptist missionary who came to Shantou to spread the gospel in 1860. Its original site was in Big Queshi. At first, the church was a bungalow, and there were only a dozen believers, but, with the gradual increase of people coming here for worship, the chapel soon ran ...