Shantou and Chaozhou are two different cities, but both belong to Chaoshan area.
1, Chaozhou: Located in the southern part of the motherland, in the middle and lower reaches of the Hanjiang River, it is a port city on the eastern coast of Guangdong Province.
2. Shantou City: a city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, a special economic zone, an important port city in the southeast coast and a central city in eastern Guangdong.
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Shantou City, Chaozhou City and Jieyang City, that is, the three cities of Chaoshan and Shantou Chaojie, have been an urban administrative region since ancient times. The name of the city was Jieyang County in the Qin, Han and Western Jin Dynasties, and Chaozhou House in previous dynasties, which was originally called Shantou City in contemporary times. 199 1 year, Shantou City was divided into three cities of Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang today.
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the three counties of Chaozhou's Chaoshan clan, namely Haiyang, Chaoyang and Jieyang, were collectively called "Chaozhou Sanyang", while during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the eight counties of Chaozhou, namely Haiyang, Chaoyang, Jieyang, Chenghai, Puning, Huilai, Raoping and Fengshun, were collectively called "Chaozhou Bayi".
The name "Chaozhou" originated from Chaozhou, which was established in the original Yi 'an county in the 11th year of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty (59 1 year). Taking the meaning of "in the tidal continent, the tides move back and forth", Chaoshan was named Chaozhou in the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and early Republic of China, and it was still called Chaozhou in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas.
The name "Chaoshan" originated from the construction of Chaoshan Railway, the first private railway in China in modern times 1904, and was widely known since the Huanggang Uprising in Chaoshan led by Sun Yat-sen in 199 1 after the former Shantou city was divided into Shantou City, Chaozhou City and Jieyang City.
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