What counties and cities are there in Chaoshan?

Generally speaking, Chaoshan refers to Chaoshan in a narrow sense, referring to eight ancient cities, namely, Chaoan, Chaoyang, Chenghai, Puning, Jieyang, Raoping, Huilai and South Australia. From the founding of New China to the era of "Big Shantou" in Chaoshan in 1990s, Chaoshan area began to take Shantou as the center and Chaozhou House as the center of Chaozhou culture. Under it, nine counties, including Chaoyang (including the southern part of the current tide), Puning, Jieyang, Chaoan, Raoping, Huilai, Jiexi, Chenghai and South Australia, were mainly established, which became the "nine cities" in the new era. In addition, due to historical, cultural, folk and other reasons, the residents in the south of Fengshun and east of Lufeng are almost the same as these nine towns in all aspects, so they also belong to this narrow Chaoshan area: