page_title: Shantou
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Shantou / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Guoping Road in central Shantou.
context_page_description: Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,391,028 as of 2010 and an administrative area of 2,064 square kilometres.
  Shantou, a city significant in 19th-century Chinese history as one of the treaty ports established for Western trade and contact, was one of the original special economic zones of China established in the 1980s, but did not blossom in the manner that cities such as Shenzhen, Xiamen and Zhuhai did. However, it remains eastern Guangdong's economic centre, and is home to Shantou University, which is under the provincial Project 211 program in Guangdong.
context_section_description: Shantou is one of the most densely populated regions in China. Former Chaoyang City was China's most populous county-level administrative region, with 2.4 million inhabitants.
  Shantou has direct jurisdiction over six districts and one county, and the six urban districts of Shantou have a population of 5,330,764.
caption: Guoping Road in downtown Shantou
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