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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).
City Romanization Population (2010) Image Information City Map Shantou 汕头: Pinyin: Shàntóu Cantonese Yale: Saantàu Peng'im: Suan1-tao5 Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sòaⁿ-thâu: 5,391,028 Shantou is the main city of the Chaoshan region. It is a port on the South China Sea, and is one of China's Special Economic Zones.
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.
The airport was put into service on 15 December 2011, with the simultaneous shut-down of Shantou Waisha Airport as a commercial airport. According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China, in 2024, Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport recorded 70,498 flight takeoffs and landings, and 8.666 million passenger movements, representing a year ...
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 ...
For the next five years, Shantou City was a higher-level city, containing Chaozhou and Jieyang within it. Currently, Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang are equal in status. In 2022, the city's 5-year plan has detailed the realization of a 43.3-gigawatt offshore windfarm located between 47 and 115 miles (75 and 185 km) off the city's coast. [8]
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 Swatow dialect, or in Mandarin the Shantou dialect, is a Chinese dialect mostly spoken in Shantou in Guangdong, China. It is a dialect of Chaoshan Min language. [ 4 ] It is similar to and largely mutually intelligible with the Teochew dialect.