Zhanjiang, formerly known as "Canton Bay" or "Port City", is a prefecture level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. It is located on the Leizhou Peninsula, the southernmost tip of Chinese Mainland, at the junction of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan. It is adjacent to the South China Sea in the south, facing Hainan Province across the Qiongzhou Strait, adjacent to the Beibu Gulf in the west, backed by the southwest, and connected with Maoming City in the east. It governs 3 county-level cities, 5 districts, and 2 counties.
Zhanjiang is the economic center of Western Guangdong and the Beibu Gulf Economic Circle, the port city with the shortest voyage from Chinese Mainland to Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania, one of the first 14 coastal open cities in 1984, and the headquarters of the South China Sea Fleet of the Chinese Navy.
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