Shantou

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Website http://www.shantou.gov.cn/

Shantou (simplified Chinese: 汕头; traditional Chinese: 汕頭; pinyin: Shàntóu; POJ: Sòaⁿ-thâu; also historically known as Swátōw or Suátao) is a city of 4,971,000 permanent inhabitants (as at end 2006) in coastal Eastern Guangdong, China, occupying an area of 2,064 km2. With it and the immediately surrounding cities of Jieyang and Chaozhou, the metropolitan region – known as Chaoshan – covers an area of 10,404 km2, and had a permanent population of 13,139,800 at the end of 2006.

Well today we leave Beijing to fly to Shantou, it'll take us about 3 hours to get there. Shantou is not far from Guanzhou, also known as chocolate city because of the number of people from Africa who go there for business as the city was one of the first areas to be opened to the west for trading.

For us foreigners all Chinese are from China but as Chinese know that China is made up from differing ethnic minorities, Teochew and Hakka are the indigeonous population and whilst most speak a local dialect. They all speak the national dialect of Mandarin

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