Which city does Chaoshan in Guangdong belong to?

Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei. Chaoshan area is not an administrative region, but a local administrative region for a long time in history. It is an area with Chaoshan people as the main ethnic group, a Chaoshan cultural area and a Chaoshan dialect area, with the south of Lianhua Mountain as the natural geographical division.

Chaoshan includes four prefecture-level cities of Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei, as well as counties and districts such as Fengshun, Dabu and Huidong, which are collectively called the four cities in eastern Guangdong.

Chaoshan people are concentrated in Chaoshan area of Guangdong and their ancestral home, mainly distributed in the southern coastal areas of China, such as Guangdong, Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province and Hainan. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, a large number of Chaoshan people have emigrated, covering Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, France and other countries 100.

Chaoshan, a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, has been one of the largest immigration ports in China since ancient times. There are about 20 million overseas Chinese in Chaoshan, accounting for13 of the overseas Chinese in China.

Chaoshan is located in Baxiang Mountain of Yinna Mountain, the valley in the middle reaches of Hanjiang River and the southern foot of Fenghuang Mountain, and crosses the eastern foot of Lianhua Mountain from east to west to the border of Guangdong and Fujian. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with low overall level, fertile soil and rich agricultural products. The landform is mainly plain, followed by mountains, terraces and hills.

Chaoshan area has long been a local administrative region with a long history of humanities, which left the footprint of human civilization 8,000 years ago. Through expert appraisal and collection of prehistoric ancient cultural relics, the prehistoric culture in Chaoshan area can be traced back to 8000 years ago.