ChaoZhou lies in East Guangdong,neighboring Fujian Province in the northeast,adjoining Meizhou in the north,Jieyang in the west and Shantou Special Economic Zone in the south.It has a coastline facing the South China Sea.Its two rivers,Hanjiang and Huanggang,run through the whole area.
The city covers a total area of 3,613.9 Square km,with land 3,080.9 square km,sea 533 square km and a coastline of l36 km.Chaozhou is of subtropical marine monsoon climate with an average ambient temperature of 21.4 and an average Precipitation of l685.8 mm annually.