Dabu County
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Dabu County (Template:Zh) is a county in Meizhou City, in the east of Guangdong Province, China. A center of Hakka culture, it has a population of 375,000.
Dabu County has a long history of human settlement. The county was established in 413 in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Dabu was under the administration of Jieyang County.[1]
Notable people
This is the ancestral hometown of 1st President of Guyana, Arthur Chung, even though the Indians are the majority of Guyana.[2]
70% of Singapore's 300,000-strong Hakka community are descended from emigrants from Dabu County, including the great-grandfather of Singapore's founding father and first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.[3]
Ethno-linguistic make-up
Dabu is noted for its large Hakka population.
Administrative divisions
Dabu County has jurisdiction over the following towns:
- Huliao (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Gaopi (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Chayang (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Dama (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Sanhe (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Yinjiang (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Guangde (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Taoyuan (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Fenglang (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Dadong (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Xihe (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Qingxi (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Zhourui (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Baihou (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
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Climate
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Attractions
- Zhonghandi, Ancestral Residence of Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, serving from 1959 to 1990.
References
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