City Details: Yangjiang

A few alternate names for Yangjiang are: Chiang-ch'eng-chen, Chiang-ch’eng-chen, Duong Giang, Dương Giang, Iong-gong, Iong-kang-chhi, Iòng-gŏng, Iông-kang-chhī, Janczjan, Jang-tiang

Yangjiang, alternately romanized via Cantonese as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north, Jiangmen to the east, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south. The local dialect is the Gaoyang dialect, a branch of Yue Chinese. During the 2020 census, its population was 2,602,959 inhabitants of whom 1,292,987 lived in the built-up and largely urbanized area comprising Jiangcheng District and Yangdong District.