Raoping County (Chinese Postal Map Romanisation: Jaoping; Chinese: 饶平县; Pinyin: Ráopíng Xiàn) is a county in eastern Guangdong Province, to the west of Fujian Province, near the South China Sea. The city with the same name has 135,600 inhabitants (1990).
It is under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou.
Raoping is famous for its seafood and fruits.
Famous quotes containing the word county:
“Hold hard, my county darlings, for a hawk descends,
Golden Glamorgan straightens, to the falling birds.
Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)