Dongqu | |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Settlement Type: | Subdistrict |
Pushpin Map: | China Guangdong |
Pushpin Label: | Dongqu |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guangdong |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Guangdong |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
Subdivision Name2: | Zhongshan |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 22.7675°N 113.2961°W |
Timezone: | China Standard |
Utc Offset: | +8 |
Dongqu Subdistrict, also known as East Subdistrict, or Eastern Subdistrict, is a subdistrict of Zhongshan City, Guangdong, China, which was established in 1987. It is the location of the Zhongshan Municipal Government, and is the political, economic, and cultural centre the city, and is renowned for being the (ancestral) hometown of 32,000 overseas Chinese. It covers and permanent population of 120,000.[1] Officially, it is a subdistrict (Chinese: 东区街道).[2]