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Dongguan, referred to as "Dongguan" for short, is a prefecture-level city and megacity under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, and the central city on the east coast of the Pearl River Delta as determined by the State Council. By the end of 2022 10, there were 4 streets and 28 towns in Dongguan with a total area of 2,542.67 square kilometers.

By the end of 2022, the permanent population of Dongguan was 6.5438+0.0437 million, of which the urban population was 962.8 10/0.000, and the urbanization rate was 92.25%. Dongguan is located in the south of China, south-central Guangdong Province, east of the Pearl River Estuary, adjacent to Guangzhou in the northwest, Shenzhen in the south and Huizhou in the northeast. It belongs to subtropical monsoon climate, with no long summer and abundant rainfall.

Dongguan is one of the central cities of the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen metropolitan area, the first of the "Four Little Tigers in Guangdong", known as the "world factory", an important transportation hub and foreign trade port in Guangdong, and one of the four prefecture-level cities without districts in China.

In 2 14 BC, Qin Shihuang merged with Lingnan, and Dongguan was subordinate to Panyu County, guangzhou fu. 1988 1 month, Dongguan was upgraded to a prefecture-level city directly under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. Dongguan is one of the birthplaces of Guangfu culture, one of the important birthplaces of Cantonese opera and the hometown of Cantonese opera in China.

Dongguan is the beginning of China's modern history and the forerunner of reform and opening up. It is listed as the first batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization and a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong. Dongguan is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, and has successively won the titles of national forest city, international garden city, national civilized city and national basketball city.

The geological structure of Dongguan city belongs to Boluo fault and Dongguan fault basin in the southern margin of Luofushan fault zone. The terrain is high in the southeast and low in the northwest. The landforms are mainly hilly platforms and alluvial plains, with hilly platforms accounting for 44.5% of the city's land area, alluvial plains accounting for 43.3% and mountains accounting for 6.2% of the city's land area.

The southeast is mountainous, especially in the east. The mountain is huge, strongly divided, concentrated in pieces and fluctuating, with an altitude of 200-600 meters and a slope of about 30. The main peak of Yinpingzui Mountain is 898.2 meters high, which is the highest peak in Dongguan.