Encyclopedia > Zhongshan

Article Content

Zhongshan

Zhongshan (中山) is a city in the south of the Pearl River[?] Delta in Guangdong province in China. The city was originally a county named in honour of Dr. Sun Zhongshan. Dr. Sun was born Sun Yat-sen in Cuiheng Village (翠亨村) of this place.

Prior to the name change, it was called:

Yuehai Circuit (粵海道) "Cantonese Sea"
Xiangshan County (香山縣), "Fragrant Mountain".

Primary productions are agricultural, such as rice, lychee, banana, and sugar cane.

Colleges and universities

Sun Yet-sen University of Medical Sciences[?]
Zhongnan University[?]
Zhongshan University[?]

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

French resistance

... Group of students of Sorbonne University that begun to produce an underground newspaper of the same name. First printing at August 1941 was 15.000. Paper survived throug ...