Zhongshan
People's Republic of China · Asia
About Zhongshan
Zhongshan, alternately romanized via Cantonese as Jungsaan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is now part of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen conurbation with 65,565,622 inhabitants. The city-core subdistricts used to be called Shiqi or Shekki.
Zhongshan is one of the few Chinese cities to be named after a person. It was originally named Xiangshan, but was renamed in 1925 in honor of Sun Yat-sen, who is known in China as "Sun Zhongshan". Sun, a local of the area, was the founding father of the Republic of China who is also regarded positively by the People's Republic.
Until 1925, Zhongshan was generally known as Xiangshan or Heung-san, in reference to the many flowers that grew in the mountains nearby. The city was renamed in honor of Sun Yat-sen, who had adopted the name Zhongshan. Sun is considered by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China to be the "Father of Modern China", and was from Cuiheng...
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