Maoming
Maoming, alternately romanized as Mowming, is a prefecture-level city located in southwestern Guangdong province, China.

Maoming, alternately romanized as Mowming, is a prefecture-level city located in southwestern Guangdong province, China. Facing the South China Sea to the city's south, Maoming borders Zhanjiang to the west, Yangjiang to the east, and Yunfu to the northeast, and is 362 kilometers (225 mi) from the province's capital Guangzhou and 121 kilometers (75 mi) from Zhanjiang. The Maoming Port is a Grade I port that handled 16.8 million tons of cargo in 2007. Refined oil and aquatic products are the major export products from the city. Major export destinations include Hong Kong, Macao and ASEAN member nations.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Open Pit Ecological Park
It used to be a mine where a large amount of oil shale was mined, but now it is no longer mined.
- 02China's First Beach
The most famous beach in Maoming, it is a must-visit place for Maoming people on vacation.
- 03Chicken Island
The most famous island in Maoming, the island is a resort with a number of hotels.
- 04Madam Xian's Native Place
- 05Temple of Madam Xian
- 06Tianmashan
From Wikivoyage: Maoming, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Eateries in Maoming mainly serve Cantonese cuisine, but the city also has some unique delicacies of its own: Claypot Rice Noodles(沙煲粉): A common snack in Maoming, it's mainly made of rice noodles, with bean sprouts, peanuts, cabbage, etc. Shiguanzui(食惯嘴): A kind of rice noodle skin from Maoming, it's thin, smooth, soft and chewy and very delicious.
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Getting to Maoming
- Airports
- Zhanjiang Wuchuan (ZHA), 40 km · Haikou Meilan (HAK), 198 km · Zhuhai Jinwan (ZUH), 256 km
- Stations
- Maoming Railway Station, 1.9 km
- Zhanjiang → Maoming73 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ¥37–49
- Haikou (Meilan) → Maoming191 km · quickest by road, 9h 16m · ¥105–140
- Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Maoming257 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · ¥115–155
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Maoming
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Maoming. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Maoming – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Maoming
Maoming is 28 km from Wuchuan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Maonan Districtdistrict of Maoming, Guangdong, China2.4 km