Which province is Chaoshan?

Chaoshan is a city in Guangdong Province.

Chaoshan is located in the southeast coastal area of Guangdong Province, bordering Lianhua Mountain in the north, South China Sea in the south, Haifeng County in the west, Raoping County in the east and facing Taiwan Province Province. Chaoshan refers to Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shantou in Guangdong, where Chaoshan dialect is a language family.

The sea is in the south and the mountains are in the north. Geographically, Chaoshan has more than 500 kilometers of coastline along the southeast coast, surrounded by mountains on three sides, including rivers where the Tropic of Cancer meets, and pours into the plain.

The origin of the name

The administrative area of Chaoshan was named Chaozhou in Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and Chaoshan was named after the founding of New China, which was originally Shantou in contemporary times.

"Chaozhou" is named after the establishment of Chaozhou House, which means "In Chaozhou, the tides rise and fall". In the 11th year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (59 1), Yi 'an County was renamed Chaozhou, and Chaoshan was called Chaozhou in Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, so Chaozhou was called Chaoshan. Now it also refers to Chaozhou city.

The name "Chaoshan" originated in modern China, and it has been widely known since the Huanggang Uprising in Chaoshan led by Sun Yat-sen in 1907. After the founding of New China, it was used as the name of Chaoshan Administrative Region.19/kloc-0+02 Shantou was divided into Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang, and it was widely used.

The name of "Shantou" evolved from the abbreviation of "Shashantou", from 1956 to 199 1 year to 65438+February as the name of Chaoshan administrative region. Now refers to Shantou city.