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Prefecture-level city in Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Maoming

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

Maoming
Maoming · Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Open 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.

  2. 02
    China's First Beach

    The most famous beach in Maoming, it is a must-visit place for Maoming people on vacation.

  3. 03
    Chicken Island

    The most famous island in Maoming, the island is a resort with a number of hotels.

  4. 04
    Madam Xian's Native Place
  5. 05
    Temple of Madam Xian
  6. 06
    Tianmashan

From Wikivoyage: Maoming, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

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.

From Wikivoyage: Maoming, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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 → Maoming
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ¥37–49
  • Haikou (Meilan) → Maoming
    191 km · quickest by road, 9h 16m · ¥105–140
  • Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Maoming
    257 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · ¥115–155
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Not yet researched

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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Around it

Next door to Maoming

Maoming is 28 km from Wuchuan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.