Shanwei

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汕尾市
Shànwěi Shì

Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
City Seat	(}; pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Shantou to the east, Meizhou and Heyuan to the north, Huizhou to the west, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south. Administration The prefecture-level city of Shanwei administers 4 county-level divisions, including 1 district, 1 county-level city and 2 counties. Shicheng District (市城区) Haifeng County (海丰县) Lufeng City (陆丰市) Luhe County (陆河县) These are further divided into 53 township-level divisions, including 40 towns, 10 townships and 3 subdistricts. History On the night of December 6, 2005, armed policemen were sent to the village of Dongzhou, Shanwei to suppress appeals by residents protesting the lack of compensation for having land confiscated by the government. Several residents were shot dead; the Chinese government claimed that three people were killed, and residents claimed that the number was between 20 and 33, with up to 40 more missing.[link]. External links [Government website of Shanwei] (in Simplified Chinese) Prefecture-level divisions of Guangdong '''Sub-provincial cities: Guangzhou | Shenzhen '''Prefecture-level cities: Chaozhou | Dongguan | Foshan | Heyuan | Huizhou Jiangmen | Jieyang | Maoming | Meizhou | Qingyuan | Shantou | Shanwei Shaoguan | Yangjiang | Yunfu | Zhanjiang | Zhaoqing | Zhongshan | Zhuhai List of Guangdong County-level divisions   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: