#language en = Shantou - 汕头市 = '''Shantou''' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters|simplified Chinese]]: 汕头; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters|traditional Chinese]]: 汕頭; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin|pinyin]]: ''Shàntóu''; ~-Mandarin pronunciation: -~[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_Mandarin|[ʂan˥˩tʰoʊ̯˧˥]]]; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POJ|POJ]]: Sòaⁿ-thâu; also historically known as '''Swátōw''' or '''Suátao''') is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City|city]] of 4,971,000 permanent inhabitants (as at end 2006) in coastal Eastern [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong|Guangdong]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China|China]], occupying an area of 2,064 km^2^. With it and the immediately surrounding cities of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jieyang|Jieyang]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaozhou|Chaozhou]], the metropolitan region – known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoshan|Chaoshan]] – covers an area of 10,404 km^2^, and had a permanent population of 13,139,800 at the end of 2006. Shantou, a city significant in 19th-century Chinese history as one of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_ports|treaty ports]] established for Western trade and contact, was one of the original [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Economic_Zones_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China|Special Economic Zones]] of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China|People's Republic of China]] established in the 1980s, but failed to blossom like other cities such as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen|Shenzhen]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen|Xiamen]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuhai|Zhuhai]]. However, it remains as Eastern Guangdong's economic centre, and is home to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantou_University|Shantou University]], a member of the “[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_211|Project 211]]” group. == Teams - 团队 == Please add links to your team(s) name here: * [[2010/Asia/China/Shantou/Shantou Linux User Group|Shantou Linux User Group]] (The idea of adding another team page is that there many be more than one team in a region/city) == Create a new Team page- 创建一个新的团队WiKi页面: == <> In all cases you need to keep the {{{CategoryRegion}}} to allow your page/region to be listed! ---- CategoryRegion