Sanxiang (;
Cantonese
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...
: ''Sāamhēung Jan'') is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
situated at the southern periphery of the city of
Zhongshan
Zhongshan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is now part of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen conurbation with 65,565,622 ...
,
Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
province. The population of Sanxiang is permanent residents and an estimated temporary residents. The total area of the town is . Sanxiang is much closer to
Zhuhai
Zhuhai (, ; Yale: ''Jyūhói''), also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, on the southeastern edge of Pear ...
than central Zhongshan.
Economics
Primary industries
*Injection moulding, toolmaking, imaging supplies
Culture
Sanxiang is one of the less busy parts of Zhongshan.
It is a little known oasis of weekend homes for Hong Kong and Macau residents and a retirement haven for people from all over China.
Notable individuals
*
Zheng Junli
*
Zheng Guanying (鄭觀應/郑观应)
See also
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Sanxiang dialect
Sanxiang (in Cantonese ''Samheung'', in the language itself ''Sahiu'') is a variety of Eastern Min Chinese mostly spoken in Sanxiang in Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or ...
External links
Sanxiang Township Government Website
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Zhongshan
Township-level divisions of Guangdong