Taishan, Guangdong
Taishan
台山市 | |
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Location of Taishan City (pink) within Jiangmen City (yellow) and Guangdong | |
Taishan Location of the administrative center in Guangdong Province | |
| Coordinates: 22°15′07″N 112°47′38″E / 22.252°N 112.794°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Prefecture-level city | Jiangmen |
| Area | |
| 3,286.3 km2 (1,268.8 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 156.8 km2 (60.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
| 907,044 | |
| • Density | 276.01/km2 (714.86/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 194,500 |
| Demonym | Taishanese |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 529200–529267 |
| Area code | 750 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 台山 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 台山 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Toishan | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Xinning | |||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新寧 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新宁 | ||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Sunning | ||||||||||||||||
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Taishan is a county-level city in the southwest of Guangdong province, China. It is administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. During the 2020 census, there were 907,354 inhabitants (941,095 in 2010), but only 433,266 were considered urban. As one of the most renowned qiao'xiangs, Taishan calls itself the "First Home of the Overseas Chinese". An estimated half a million Chinese Americans are of Taishanese descent.
It was named Xinning (新寧) until 1914, which was romanised as "Sunning".