Dongguan: Prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China

Dongguan 东莞市
Prefecture-level city
From top left, clockwise: Guanyin mountain, Humen Bridge, Keyuan, Dongguan Avenue
Location of Dongguan in Guangdong
Dongguan Location in China
Coordinates: 23°2′N 113°43′E / 23.033°N 113.717°E / 23.033; 113.717
Country	China
Province	Guangdong
County	331 AD
City (County-level)	September 1985
City (Prefecture-level)	January 1, 1988
Government
• CPC Committee Secretary	Xu Jianhua (徐建华)
• Mayor	Yuan Baocheng (袁宝成)
Area
• Prefecture-level city	2,465 km2 (952 sq mi)
• Urban	2,465 km2 (952 sq mi)
• Metro	17,572.9 km2 (6,784.9 sq mi)
Elevation	8 m (26 ft)
Population  (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	8,220,207
• Density	3,300/km2 (8,600/sq mi)
• Urban	8,220,207
• Urban density	3,300/km2 (8,600/sq mi)
• Metro	44,449,738
• Metro density	2,500/km2 (6,600/sq mi)
• HK & MAC compatriots	1 million
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard Time)
Postal code	523000
Area code	769
Licence plate prefixes	粤S
- Total	¥ 501.014 billion (2012)
- Per capita	¥ 60,694 (2012)
City flower	Yulan magnolia Magnolia denudata
Website	http://www.dg.gov.cn/

It is in the Pearl River delta. Dongguan borders Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the south, and the Pearl River to the west.

Dongguan is an industrial city. It ranks behind only Shenzhen, Shanghai and Suzhou in exports among Chinese cities, with $65.54 billion in shipments. The city is also home to one of the world's largest shopping malls, the New South China Mall.

There is evidence of people living in Dongguan area 5,000 years ago. But Dongguan only became a city in 1985, and since developed from a farming area to a large production centre.

There were 6,949,800 people living in Dongguan at the end of 2008. Of them, 748,700 were local people and 5,201,100 long-term migrants from other parts of China. At the 2010 Census the population had grown to 8,220,237. The number reached 8.29 million by the end of 2012. The average age of, 30 people lived there.82.

The city is mostly hilly to the east and flat in the west. It has 115.98 kilometres (72.07 miles) of shoreline. The city centre of Dongguan is 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Guangzhou to its north. 90 kilometres (56 mi) from Shenzhen to its south, 87 kilometres from Hong Kong and 89 kilometres from Macau by water transport. It is located at the middle of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen economic corridor, a transportation hub.

Dongguan has a wet subtropical weather, It lies just south of the Tropic of Cancer. The average temperature is 23.3 °C (73.9 °F) over the year with average rainfall of 2,042.6 millimetres (80.42 in).

Dongguan is also a famous hometown for many overseas Chinese, the family origin of over 700,000 people in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, and over 200,000 nationals living in other countries.