Qingyuan, formerly romanized as Tsingyun, is a prefecture-level city located in northern Guangdong province, China. Situated on the banks of the Bei or North River, it covers a total land area of 19,015 km2 (7,342 sq mi), making it the largest prefecture-level division in Guangdong by land area. The city borders Guangzhou and Foshan to the south, Shaoguan to the east and northeast, Zhaoqing to the south and southwest, and the regions of Hunan province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the north.
As of the 2020 census, Qingyuan had a total population of 3,969,473, with over 1.7 million residents living in the urbanized districts of Qingcheng and Qingxin. Cantonese is the primary spoken language in the region. While the city's urban core is surrounded by mountainous terrain, it maintains direct connectivity to Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta via Highway 107.