Yangjiang, also known as Niancheng. Guangdong Province is a prefecture-level city, located in the southwest coast of Guangdong, bordering on western Guangdong, surrounded by mountains in the east, west and north, and bordering on the South China Sea in the south, with a subtropical climate. By the end of 202 1, the city's land area was 7966.8 square kilometers, and the sea area was 12300 square kilometers; It has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts and 1 county, and manages 1 county-level city; The resident population is 2,620,700.
Historically, Yangjiang was an important transit station and supply station of the Maritime Silk Road. It used to be the seat of the shogunate in Han Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties and Sui Dynasty. The representative culture of Yangjiang history is Yang Mo culture; Gaoliang culture, Hayes culture and Guangfu culture complement each other here.
Terrain of Yangjiang City
Yangjiang is surrounded by mountains in the east, west and north, and borders the South China Sea in the south. Tongmushan, Lantouling and Ziluo Mountain in the east extend from northeast to southwest. The landform is mainly low hills, and the platform has weathering crust and bedrock platform, which are distributed in the front of low hills. Followed by Yangmohe alluvial plain and coastal plain. Yangchun has limestone karst landform, which is distributed in Yangchun basin plain.
In Yangchun, hills and terraces appear alternately in the middle reaches of Yang Mo and the Danshui River basin. Most of the mountains above 500 meters above sea level are granite formed by the third stage magma intrusion of Yanshan Mountain, and some of them are limestone in Yangchun. The hills with an altitude of100-500m are mainly distributed along the National Highway 325, passing through Beiguan, Heshan, Baisha, Chengcun, Zhifu and Confucius Temple.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yangjiang City