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Longgang District, Shenzhen — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Longgang District is an eastern district of Shenzhen, home of the Longgang museum of Hakka culture.
About Longgang District
Where to stay in Longgang District
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Pick your corner of the district. Longgang District spreads across the eastern reach of Shenzhen, and where you sleep decides whether your mornings open onto the Longgang town core near the Longgang museum of Hakka culture or onto the quieter blocks that run toward Pingshan District. The old core anchors most visits.
Travellers drawn to Hakka heritage tend to settle around the museum, while those working the tech corridors lean west toward Longhua District and the Shenzhen lines that thread back to the city.
About Longgang District
What are the main landmarks in Longgang District?
The district orients around its Hakka past. Its Longgang museum of Hakka culture anchors the old town core, gathering the walled-village record of the Hakka settlers who farmed this eastern edge of Shenzhen long before the towers rose. The name points the way.
Anyone crossing Longgang District measures distance against the Longgang core to the north, the Pingshan District line to the south-east, and the Luohu District blocks that mark the way back into central Shenzhen.
What is the history of Longgang District?
The Hakka carry the district's older story. A walled-village record survives in the Longgang museum of Hakka culture, which shows how migrant Hakka clans cleared and farmed this eastern corner of Shenzhen, laying out fortified compounds across the hills before the district's factories and estates arrived. The land came first.
That farming beginning still shapes Longgang District, whose name and its 龙岗区 characters predate the metro age, and whose southern reaches were later carved off to form Pingshan District.
Where is Longgang District?
Longgang District is an eastern district of Shenzhen on a warm tropical shelf of hills, its old core wrapped around the Longgang museum of Hakka culture and reaching toward Pingshan District.
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Updated July 2026