Shaoguan Travel Guide

The city of Shaoguan is a prefecture-level city located in the hilly northeastern corner of Guangdong Province, less than 100 kilometers southwest of the juncture of Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi Provinces, a city that is situated at the confluence of the Wu and Zhe Rivers, which merging rivers form the Bei ("North") River that flows thereafter southward to Guangzhou, where the Bei River empties into the Pearl River Estuary, which in turn empties into the South China Sea. As a prefecture as well as a city, Shaoguan is home to a number of concentrated ethnic communities (think: enclaves) such as the Bai, Dong, Hui, Jing, Manchu, Meng, Miao, Tujia, Yao and Zhuang ethnic enclaves, as well as a diverse assortment of ethnic individuals who live and work in the remainder of the prefecture,... [ View Details ]