Dongguan

**Dongguan** (Chinese: 东莞) is a city in Guangdong province, China.

It is in the Pearl River delta. Dongguan borders Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the south, and the Pearl River to the west.

Dongguan is an industrial city. It ranks behind only Shenzhen, Shanghai and Suzhou in exports among Chinese cities, with $65.54 billion in shipments.
The city is also home to one of the world's largest shopping malls, the New South China Mall.

There is evidence of people living in Dongguan area 5,000 years ago. But Dongguan only became a city in 1985, and since developed from a farming area to a large production centre.

There were 6,949,800 people living in Dongguan at the end of 2008. Of them, 748,700 were local people and 5,201,100 long-term migrants from other parts of China. At the 2010 Census the population had grown to 8,220,237. The number reached 8.29 million by the end of 2012. The average age of, 30 people lived there.82.

The city is mostly hilly to the east and flat in the west. It has 115.98 kilometres (72.07 miles) of shoreline. The city centre of Dongguan is 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Guangzhou to its north. 90 kilometres (56 mi) from Shenzhen to its south, 87 kilometres from Hong Kong and 89 kilometres from Macau by water transport. It is located at the middle of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen economic corridor, a transportation hub.

Dongguan has a wet subtropical weather, It lies just south of the Tropic of Cancer. The average temperature is 23.3 °C (73.9 °F) over the year with average rainfall of 2,042.6 millimetres (80.42 in).

Dongguan is also a famous hometown for many overseas Chinese, the family origin of over 700,000 people in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, and over 200,000 nationals living in other countries.

## Other websites

- HERE! Dongguan - Your English Guide to a Bustling City
- Dongguan Expats - Expatacular! - Global Expat Community
- Hello! Dongguan  A general introduction to the city of DG
- www.dongguantoday.com Government funded website, giving a full range of information about Dongguan
- Dongguan Foreign Investment Promotion Bureau
- Dongguan City Government
- Dongguan Bureau of Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation
- IATT - International Association for Technology Trade

## Infobox (settlement)

- **settlement type**: Prefecture-level city
- **image skyline**: Dongguan montage.jpg
- **image caption**: From top left, clockwise: Guanyin mountain, Humen Bridge, Keyuan, Dongguan Avenue
- **image map**: Guangdong subdivisions - Dongguan.svg
- **map caption**: Location of Dongguan in Guangdong
- **pushpin map**: China
- **pushpin map caption**: Location in China
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: China
- **subdivision type1**: Provinces of the People's Republic of China, Province
- **subdivision name1**: Guangdong
- **leader title**: Communist Party of China, CPC Committee Secretary
- **leader name**: .
- **leader title1**: Mayor
- **leader name1**: .
- **established title**: County
- **established date**: 331 AD
- **established title2**: City (County-level)
- **established date2**: September 1985
- **established title3**: City (Prefecture-level)
- **established date3**: January 1, 1988
- **area total km2**: 2465
- **area urban km2**: 2465
- **area metro km2**: 17572.9
- **population as of**: 2010 census
- **population total**: 8220207
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population metro**: 44449738
- **population density metro km2**: auto
- **population urban**: 8220207
- **population density urban km2**: auto
- **population blank2 title**: HK & MAC compatriots
- **population blank2**: 1 million
- **timezone**: China Standard Time
- **utc offset**: +8
- **elevation m**: 8
- **postal code type**: Postal code of China, Postal code
- **postal code**: 523000
- **area code**: 769
- **blank name**: License Plate (China), Licence plate prefixes
- **blank info**: 粤S
- **blank1 name**: Gross domestic product, GDP
- **blank2 name**: - Total
- **blank2 info**: Chinese renminbi, ¥ 501.014 billion (2012)
- **blank3 name**: - Per capita
- **blank3 info**: Chinese renminbi, ¥ 60,694 (2012)
- **blank4 name**: City flower
- **blank4 info**: Yulan magnolia
 _Magnolia denudata_
- **website**: http://www.dg.gov.cn/