Gaozhou

Gaozhou is a region level city in southwestern Guangdong Province, China. Once in the past the essential city in the territory, it is presently regulated as a major aspect of the prefecture-level city of Maoming. At the season of the 2010 enumeration, Gaozhou had a populace of 1,288,665 living in its 3,270.8 km2 territory. The local people talk a iety of the Gaozhou tongue. It is best known in China for being the genealogical home of Leo Ku. Gaozhou is a generally imperative city in Guangdong. Under the Qing, it was the seat of Gaozhou Commandery, supervising Dianbai, Huazhou, Maoming, "Sih-ching", Wuchuan, and Xinyi Counties.

After the Chinese Civil War, it was set under the organization of Maoming as Gaozhou County and after that elevated to district level city status in 1993. Administratively, Gaozhou is an area level city under the locale of the common level city Maoming in Guangdong Province. The city of Gaozhou comprises of five regions; the district incorporates another 23 towns. Gaozhou is found 420 km far from Shenzhen and Guangzhou, 450 km far from Hong Kong.