Dongguan Municipality, A prefecture-level city under Guangdong Province , In Chinese [东莞市]

Facts & Informations :

Administrative Division Code : 441900;

Post Code : 523003;

Phone Area Code :0769

The Prefix of Motor Vehicle License Plate : 粤S

The Prefix of Citizen Identity Card Number: 441900

Area Coverage: 2465 square kilometers;

Population : 1,790,000 persons (Including the subordinate cities and counties);

Official Website of local Government: http://www.dongguantoday.com/ >>>>

Dongguan in Pictures

City Guide to Dongguan: Restaurants, Hotels,Shopping, Hospitals ...

Restaurant and Catering Service

Muslim Cuisine	Western Food	Japanese Cuisine
Korean Cuisine	Hotpot	Snacks and Fast Food
Asian Cuisine

Leisure and Recreation Facilities

KTV	Cinema	Night Club
Cyber Cafe	Bath

Financial Facilities	Mall,Store and Market

Hospitals & Clinics	Sports Facilities

Community Service	Travel Services

Tour Guide to Dongguan: Streets and Roads

Changdi Road	Xining Road	Heping Road
Qunxing South Road	Louji Street	Shayuan Street
Xintian Street	Fuqian Road	Shuisongtang Road

Tour Guide to Dongguan: Tour Attractions

Shuilianshan Forest Park	Dongguan Exhibition Hall
Fenghuang Pavilion of Dongguan	Green World
Big Shield Forest Park	Mt. Yinping Forest Park
Ying′en Gate Tower	Songshan Lake Park
Opium War Museum	Lianhua Mountain

The adminitrative division form of Dongguan is Municipality, which is one of the four administrative divisional forms at the the second level of China local administrative division system .
Municipality is also referred to as a prefecture level city (地级市). Most of Chinese big cities belong to this variety.
A prefecture-level municipality is subject to the juridiction of a provincial government ,and directly controls some urban districts while overseeing some counties or smaller cities on behalf of the provincial government.
Thus it's normal to see a large City (a Municipality) have jurisdiction over some small cities in China.
But Dongguan is different. It has no counties, county-level cities and districts under its jurisdiction. Instead, It directly manage towns and townships as a county usually does.

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Overview

The city of Dongguan is located about 60 kilometers east-southeast of the capital city, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, which places the city on the eastern side of the Pearl River, along with the cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, while the city of Zhongshan, across the Pearl River Estuary from the city of Shenzhen, lies on the western side of the Pearl River. In fact, the cities of Dongguan, Zhongshan and Shenzhen form an almost perfect triangle, with Dongguan at its apex, albeit, displaced slightly eastward of the apex of the perfect traingle formed by these three ci.....
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