Dongguan

**Dōngguǎn** (), is a prefectur-level ceety in central Guangdong province, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.

An important industrial ceety locatit in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial caipital o Guangzhou tae the north, Huizhou tae the northeast, Shenzhen tae the sooth, an the Pearl River tae the wast.

It is hame tae ane o the warld's lairgest, tho maistly empty, shoppin maw an aw, New South China Mall. Ceety admeenistration is considered especially progressive in seekin foreign direct investment.  The three neebourin municipalities o Guangzhou, Dongguan, an Shenzhen are hame tae ower 25 million residents, accoontin for a lairge proportion o the Pearl River Delta Region's population.

Dongguan ranks ahint anerlie Shenzhen, Shanghai an Suzhou in exports amang Cheenese ceeties, wi $65.54 billion in shipments.

## Admeenistration
Dongguan haes nae intermediate coonty level; insteid it is dividit intae 32 touns (destricts) an each o thaim is possessin its awn distinct characteristics:

## History
Awtho the earliest traces o human habitation in the aurie stretch back 5,000 years, Dongguan's emergence as a true ceety is a recent phenonomenon. 

In 1839, at the ootset o the First Opium War, lairge quantities o seizit opium wur burned in the local toun o Humen. Several o the major battles o the war wur focht here in this aurie.

Durin the Seicont Warld War, the ceety servit as the base for guerilla resistance against the Japanese occupation.

## Geografie

The urban centre o Dongguan is 50&nbsp;km awa frae that o Guangzhou tae its north, 90&nbsp;km awa frae Shenzhen tae its sooth,  awa frae Hong Kong an  frae Macau bi watterwa. Dongguan is a must-pass-bi locality frae Guangzhou tae Hong Kong bi road or watterwey.

O the total aurie o Dongguan, 27% is watter, 25% forest laund, an 13% ploughed laund, while 35% o its laund aurie haes been fully developit.

## Climate
The climate o Dongguan is humid subtropical. It lees juist sooth o the Tropic o Cancer. The average temperatur is  throuoot the year. The average rainfaw is .

## Demografics
Dongguan haed an estimatit 6,949,800 inhabitants at the end o 2008, amang whom 1,748,700 wur local residents an 5,201,100 permanent migrants frae ither pairts o the kintra. At the 2010 Census the population haed reacht 8,220,237.

Dongguan is a kent hometown for mony owerseas Cheenese an aw, the faimily oreegin o ower 700,000 fowk in Hong Kong, Taiwan an Macau an ower 200,000 naitionals livin abroad.

## International relations

### Twin touns an sister ceeties
Dongguan is twinned wi:
* Hartford, Connecticut, Unitit States syne (5 Mairch 2001) 
* Thessaloniki, Greece syne (24 October 2008) 
* Asan, Sooth Korea syne (24 September 2012) 

## See also
* Dongguan New Century
* Guangdong Southern Tigers
* Lanwa FC plays in the Hong Kong, no Cheenese, fitbaa pyramid
* New South China Mall: Warld's seicont lairgest maw.

## References

;*Economic data*
*Economic profile for Dongguan at HKTDC

## Freemit airtins

* Dongguan Ceety Govrenment   and 
*www.dongguantoday.com Govrenment fundit wabsteid, givin a full range o information aboot Dongguan  and 
*Dongguan Bureau of Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation   an 
*IATT - International Association for Technology Trade 
*Expats in Dongguan - Expatacular - Expat Community