Place:Shanwei, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

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NameShanwei
TypeCity
Coordinates22.767°N 115.333°E
Located inGuangdong, People's Republic of China
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Shanwei, or Swabue is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Jieyang to the east, Meizhou and Heyuan to the north, Huizhou to the west, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south. It lies approximately east of Shenzhen and the locals speak the Haifeng dialect.

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Shanwei City was renamed established in 1988. It was politically administered as part of Huizhoufu (惠州府) by the Ming and Qing empires, Shanwei it gained its prefectural and administrative independence from Huizhou during the Nationalist period.

The dominant ethnic population is Hoklo who came as a result of the large decrease in population caused by warfare in the early Qing dynasty in what is now Shanwei.

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