Dongguan

prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
Organization prefecture_level_city Q59218
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Summary

Dongguan is a prefecture-level city[1]. Dongguan ranks in the top 5% of prefecture level city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,863 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Guangdong[3]
  • Country: People's Republic of China[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Pearl River[5]
  • Continent: Asia[6]
  • Instance of: zhitongzi city[7], big city[8]
  • Shares border with: Shenzhen[9]
  • Named after: Juncus effusus[10]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Dongcheng Subdistrict[11], Nancheng Subdistrict[12], Wanjiang Subdistrict[13], Guancheng Subdistrict[14], Shijie Town[15], Shilong Town[16], Chashan Town[17], Shipai Town[18], Qishi Town[19], Hengli Town[20], Qiaotou Town[21], Xiegang Town[22], Dongkeng Town[23], Changping Town[24]
  • Twinned administrative body: Wuppertal[25]
  • Legislative body: 东莞市人民代表大会[26]
  • Postal code: 523000[27]
  • Part of: Pearl River Delta[28]
  • Commons category: Dongguan[29]
  • Licence plate code: 粤S[30]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+08:00[31]
  • Local dialing code: 769[32]
  • Official website: http://www.dongguan.gov.cn/[33]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Dongguan[34]
  • Population: 8,220,207[35], 8,310,000[36], 10,466,625[37]
  • Replaces: Dongguan County[38]
  • Official name: 东莞市[39]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Dongguan[40]
  • Hanyu Pinyin transliteration: Dōngguǎn[41]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Dongguan[42]
  • Different from: Dongguang County[43]

Why It Matters

Dongguan has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] Dongguan is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [26] ↑ . National Database of Laws and Regulations. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . demographia.com. demographia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . Tabulation on 2020 China Population Census by County. wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · EEIM · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Locator map image → Dongguan map2005.jpg
    Pronunciation audio → LL-Q9186 (yue)-Justinrleung-東莞.wav
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  2. 10w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → UTC+08:00
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/45103|batch #45103]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.dongguan.gov.cn/
    P14541 → 36YYsX
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  4. 21w ago · Gelli1742 · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Locator map image → Dongguan map2005.jpg
    Located in time zone → UTC+08:00
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 23.04749, 'lon': 113.74928}
    Population → {'amount': '+8220207'}, {'amount': '+8310000'}, {'amount': '+10466625'}
    + 30 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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