Enping
city in Guangdong province, China
Enping, alternately romanized as Yanping, is a county-level city in Guangdong province, China, administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen.
Enping administers an area of 1,698 km2 (656 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 483,907 in 2020. Its diaspora accounts for over 400,000 overseas Chinese, particularly in the Americas. It is notably the primary ancestral home for the majority of the Chinese in Venezuela, with an estimated 90% of that country's Chinese population originating from the city. The area around Enping is known for its many hot springs.
Geography
Enping is located in southwest Guangdong, at the western edge of the Pearl River Delta and beside the South China Sea. Enping borders Kaiping to the northeast and Yangjing to the southwest.
History
Enping County was established in AD 220. Under the Qing, it made up part of the commandery of Zhaoqing and was one of the Four Counties responsible for much of the early Chinese diaspora from Guangdong in the 19th century.
Academic studies by Gao Weinong indicate that Venezuela serves as the primary global destination for the Enping diaspora.
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