Nanhai, Guangdong Province, China
🇨🇳 Nanhai District (南海区; 南海區), is a district of Foshan, Guangdong, China. Its government is the first to have developed e-government informatization at the county level in China.
History Establishment of Nanhai is traditionally attributed two brothers carrying their father's bowls in 1271. They were fleeing south from the Mongols on a bamboo raft when a violent storm shipwrecked them and broke all the bowls. The brothers settled down there and the position of the wreck is commemorated by a shrine. This area was named Broken Bowls Point.
On 15 February 1921, the eastern part of Nanhai County was ceded to the newly established City of Guangzhou which became part of what is now western part of Liwan. On 26 June 1951, Foshan Town (present Chancheng) was ceded to the newly established City of Foshan. Nanhai County was upgraded into a county-level city on 2 September 1992 until 8 December 2002 Nanhai was consolidated as a district of Foshan.
Administration division Nanhai was a county-level city until December 8, 2002, when it became a district of Foshan prefecture-level city.
E-government Nanhai was designated by the central government as a pilot city for e-government and informatization in 2001.
Asia/Shanghai/Guangdong
Nanhai has a population of over 2,588,844 people. Nanhai also forms part of the wider Foshan Prefecture which has a population of over 9,498,863 people.
To set up a UBI Lab for Nanhai see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork
Twin Towns - Sister Cities Nanhai has links with:
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🇨🇳 Foshan 113.117,23.033 d: 5.8
🇨🇳 Luohu 113.053,23.071 d: 8.3
🇨🇳 Guangzhou 113.209,23.156 d: 11.2
🇨🇳 Canton 113.266,23.132 d: 14.6
🇨🇳 Baiyun 113.273,23.157 d: 16.5
🇨🇳 Shunde 113.25,22.833 d: 30.3
🇨🇳 Huadu 113.183,23.367 d: 31.9
🇨🇳 Panyu 113.383,22.933 d: 30.5
🇨🇳 Jiangmen 113.077,22.574 d: 56.9
🇨🇳 Nansha District 113.6,22.833 d: 55.3
Antipodal to: Nanhai -66.867,-23.083
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🇧🇴 Sucre -65.263,-19.043 d: 19536
🇨🇱 Iquique -70.15,-20.217 d: 19549.6
🇦🇷 Concepción -65.583,-27.333 d: 19525.2