Yangjiang

(Urban center) 529600, 529800, 529900 Yangjiang (simplified Chinese: 阳江; traditional Chinese: 陽江, yang-CH'YANG[a]), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north, Jiangmen to the east, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south. The local dialect is the Gaoyang dialect, a branch of Yue Chinese. During the 2020 census, its population was 2,602,959 inhabitants of whom 1,292,987 lived in the built-up (or metro) and largely urbanized area comprising Jiangcheng District and Yangdong County.[5] Under the Qing, Yangjiang County made up part of the commandery of Zhaoqing.[6] It was later split off as a separate prefecture in its own right.