Kaiping

Kaiping
Kaiping
Simplified Chinese	开平
Traditional Chinese	開平
Taishanese	Hoi3-pen6 (local)
Hanyu Pinyin	Kāipíng
Postal	Hoiping
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Kāipíng
Wade–Giles	K'ai1-p'ing2
IPA	[kʰáɪpʰǐŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Hoi1-ping4
IPA	[hɔːi˥ pʰeŋ˩]
other Yue
Taishanese	Hoi3-pen6 (local)

Kaiping

开平市
Hoiping
Kaiping 开平市 Hoiping
County-level city
	Dixi Road in Chikan, Kaiping
	Location of Kaiping City Centre (red) in Kaiping (pink), Guangdong province, and the PRC
	Kaiping Location of the Kaiping city centre in Guangdong
	Coordinates: 22°22′38″N 112°41′54″E / 22.3773°N 112.6982°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Guangdong
Prefecture-level city	Jiangmen
County seat	Changsha Subdistrict (长沙街道)
Area
• Total	1,659 km2 (641 sq mi)
Population (2017 census)
• Total	688,242
• Density	410/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	529300
Area code	0750
Website	www.kaiping.gov.cn

Kaiping (Chinese: 开平), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping,^[a] is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. It is located in the western section of the Pearl River Delta and administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. The surrounding area, especially Sze Yup (Chinese: 四邑), is the ancestral homeland of many overseas Chinese, particularly in the United States.^[2] Kaiping has a population of 688,242 as of 2017 and an area of 1,659 square kilometres (641 sq mi).^[3] The locals speak a variant of the Sze Yup dialect.

^ Bolton & al. (1941), p. 262.
^ Woon, Yuen-fong (1984). Social organization in South China, 1911-1949: the case of the Kuan lineage in K'ai-p'ing county. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. ISBN 0-89264-051-0.
^ "Profile of Kaiping" (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on January 18, 2010. Retrieved 2008-07-12.

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[FOOTNOTEBolton_&_al.1941[httpsbooksgooglecombooksid6irEoGgDrm4CpgPA262_262]-1] Bolton & al. (1941), p. 262.

[yf_woon-3] Woon, Yuen-fong (1984). Social organization in South China, 1911-1949: the case of the Kuan lineage in K'ai-p'ing county. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. ISBN 0-89264-051-0.

[4] "Profile of Kaiping" (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on January 18, 2010. Retrieved 2008-07-12.

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