Yamen () is a

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in the south of

Xinhui District Xinhui, alternately romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang, is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong, China. It grew from a separate city founded at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers. It has a population of about 735,500 ...

Jiangmen Jiangmen ( zh, c=江门), postal map romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong provinces of China, Province in southern China. It consists of three urban distri ...

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

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. It covers an area of , and had a population of 41,605 per the

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History

In 1279, the

Battle of Yamen The Battle of Yamen (), also known as the Battle of Yashan (), was a naval battle which took place in southern China on 19 March 1279. It is considered to be the last stand of the Song dynasty against the invading forces of the Mongol-led Yuan ...

took place in the area between the navies of the

Song dynasty The Song dynasty ( ) was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Fiv ...

and the

Yuan dynasty The Yuan dynasty ( ; zh, c=元朝, p=Yuáncháo), officially the Great Yuan (; Mongolian language, Mongolian: , , literally 'Great Yuan State'), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after Div ...

. In 1955, Yamen was placed under the jurisdiction of the now-defunct Anxi District (). In 1958, Yamen was divided into Yaxi Township () and Tongnan Township (). In 1984, these became Yaxi District () and Yanan District (). Two years later, Yaxi and Yanan became

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. On June 22, 2002, the

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passed a law which changed

Xinhui Xinhui, alternately romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang, is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong, China. It grew from a separate city founded at the confluence of the Tan and West Rivers. It has a population of about 735,50 ...

from a

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to a

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, and merged Yaxi and Yanan into the town of Yamen ().

Administrative divisions

Yamen administers 2 residential communities () and 17 administrative villages (). In addition to administrative villages, Yamen includes a number of natural villages (), such as , which have no administrative jurisdiction.

Residential communities

The 2 residential communities governed by Yamen are Yaxi Community () and Yanan Community ().

Villages

The following 17 administrative villages are governed by Yamen: * Tianshui Village () * Huangchong Village () * Jingbei Village () * Jingmei Village () * Nanhe Village () * Dongnan Village () * Dongbei Village () * Shuibei Village () * Kengkou Village () * Jiaobeishi Village () * Tianbian Village () * Gudou Village () * Tiannan Village () * Hengshui Village () * Longwang Village () * Mingping Village () * Lianghuangwu Village ()

Demographics

According to the

, Yaxi and Yanan, the two former

which comprise present-day Yamen, had populations of 29,634 and 11,971, respectively. Combined, these populations total 41,605. As of 1996, Yaxi and Yanan had areas of and , respectively, and populations of about 31,000 and 9,000, respectively. This gives contemporary Yamen an area of , and a population of 40,000, as of 1996.

Tourism

Major tourist sites in Yamen include and .

Transportation

connects the

to neighboring .

References

Xinhui District Towns in Guangdong {{Guangdong-geo-stub