Qingyuan, a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, is one of the cities in Guangzhou metropolitan area. As early as the Neolithic Age, ancestors thrived on this land and created a splendid prehistoric civilization. According to the data of the seventh population census.
Qingyuan City is located in the north-central part of Guangdong Province, the middle and lower reaches of Beijiang River, the south side of Nanling Mountains and the Pearl River Delta. The whole territory is located at latitude 23? 26′56″~25? 1 1 ′ 40 ″, 1 1 1? 55′ 17″~ 1 13? Between 55' and 34 ",it connects Guangzhou and Foshan in the south, Hunan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the north, Shaoguan City in the east and northeast, and Zhaoqing City in the west and southwest.
The north-south distance is 190km, the east-west distance is about 230km, and the boundary line exceeds 1200km. The total land area of Qingyuan City is10.9 million square kilometers, accounting for10.6% of the total land area of the whole province, and it is the largest prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province.