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Which cities does Chaoshan include?

Shantou City, Chaozhou City and Jieyang City. After 1949, Chaoshan area belongs to Chaoshan area. 1February, 956, together with Xingmei, it was called Shantou Special Zone. February 7 199 1, divided into three prefecture-level cities: Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang. Chaoshan area is located in the southeast of China, on the east coast of Guangdong Province, at the junction of Guangdong Province and Fujian Province, adjacent to Fujian Province, facing the South China Sea in the south, across the Taiwan Province Strait in the east, and facing Taiwan Province Province in China. Chaoshan is located in east longitude11506' ~1720', north latitude 22 53' ~ 2414', with a total area of 10346 square kilometers. The total length of the coast is 278 kilometers, and the eastern end is in Shangdong Town, Dongjie Town, Raoping County, bordering Zhao 'an County, Fujian Province. The western end is on the west side of Nanhai Frontier Post of Shenquan Port in Huilai County, bordering Lu Fengxian. By the end of 2020, according to the data of the seventh national census bulletin, the total resident population in Chaoshan area is about 13648200. Among them, Jieyang has a permanent population of 5,577,800, Chaozhou has a permanent population of 2,568,400 and Shantou has a permanent population of 5,502,000.