Dabu County is a district of Meizhou

Meizhou

-Administration:The municipal government, Intermediate Court and CPC and PSB bureaux are housed in the district of Jiangnan , on the right bank of Meijiang River.A second district of Meizhou is Jiangbei , on the left bank...

, Guangdong Province of China. It is a center of Hakka

Hakka people

The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....

 culture. In Survivor : Micronesia the merged tribe was named Dabu.

Dabu County (大埔县)control the following zhen(镇,township) - 湖寮镇(Huliao),高陂镇(Gaopi),茶阳镇(Chayang), 大麻镇(Dama), 三河镇(Sanhe), 银江镇(Yinjiang), 光德镇(Guangde), 桃源镇(Taoyuan), 枫朗镇(Fenglang),大东镇(Dadong), 西河镇(Xihe), 青溪镇(Qingxi), 洲瑞镇(Zhourui), 百侯镇(Baihou).

The administrative center is at Huiliaozhen(湖寮镇),formerly it was at Chayangzhen(茶阳镇), an ancient town. The people are mainly Hakka.

The famous personality of Dapu people are:

1. Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH is a Singaporean statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades...

, the former Singapore Prime Minister

2. Yong Mun Sen, an artist,the father of water color of Malaysia

External links

• http://www.dabu.gov.cn/ 大埔縣人民政府信息網
• www.penang-artists.com/Yong%20Mun%20Sen.