Xiegang
town of Dongguan, Guangdong, China
Xiegang (simplified Chinese: 谢岗镇; traditional Chinese: 謝崗鎮; pinyin: Xiègǎng zhèn) is a town under the direct jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China.
Administration
Xiegang covers an area of 103 square kilometres (40 sq mi) and administers 11 village committees along with one urban neighbourhood community.
Location
Xiegang Town is located in the eastern part of Dongguan City, 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Huizhou in the east, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Zhangmutou, east of Dongguan and Dongguan railway station respectively in the west and 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Shenzhen in the south.
Transportation
Provincial Road S357 and Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou Railway intersect within the town.
“Xiegang” enters the record as town of Dongguan, Guangdong, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Xiegang, town and Dongguan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Xiegang” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Xiegang, town and Dongguan provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8044392. Authority coordinates are 22.961, 114.141. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Xiegang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.