Yangjiang is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province, China. It is alternately romanized via Cantonese as Yeungkong. The city borders Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north, and Jiangmen to the east, and it faces the South China Sea to the south.
The local dialect is the Gaoyang dialect, a branch of Yue Chinese. At the 2020 census, Yangjiang had a population of 2,602,959 inhabitants, of whom 1,292,987 lived in the built-up and largely urbanized area comprising Jiangcheng District and Yangdong District.