Jiangmen

Jiangmen, in the past romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China. Its 3 urban regions are currently part of the Guangzhou– Shenzhen conurbation and the whole prefecture had a populace of about 4.45 million in 2010. Jiangmen is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese name, in view of its elocution in the Mandarin lingo. Its previous Wade-Giles spelling was Chiang-men. The Postal Map spelling "Kongmoon" depended on a similar name's Cantonese articulation Gong- mun. Different types of the name incorporate Kong Moon, Kongmun, and Kiangmoon.

Jiangmen is otherwise called Pengjiang. Its provincial hinterland is referred to the Chinese diaspora as the "Four Counties", in spite of the fact that the expansion of Heshan to Jiangmen has provoked the rest of local people to start considering it the "Five Counties" instead. Historically, Jiangmen was a network under the organization of close-by Xinhui County. Jiangmen, in any case, was compelled to open to western exchange 1902. A heritage of this period is a memorable waterfront locale fixed with western-style structures. The city has a continuous re-establishment venture which is re-establishing a considerable lot of these structures. Jiangmen was announced a city in 1951 and later turned into the prefectural seat for the Sze Yup district including Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, Enping.