Cangnan County is a county in the prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city

A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

 of Wenzhou
cangnan

Cangnan County is in the South of Zhejiang

Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

.

Area code:330327

Zip code:325800

The county government is in Lingxi,which is a big town.

Cangnan has 20 towns, 14 townships, and 2 nationality townships.

The predominant Chinese dialect spoken in Cangnan is Zhenan Min

Zhenan Min

Zhenan Min , is a variety of Min Nan Chinese spoken in the Wenzhou region of the southern Chinese province of Zhejiang. The Zhenan Min people had settled in areas such as Cangnan County, Pingyang County, Yuhuan County and Dongtou County from Fujian Province as early as the Tang dynasty period and...

, but other dialects, such as Wenzhou dialect

Wenzhou dialect

Wenzhounese or Oujiang is the speech of Wenzhou, the southern prefecture of Zhejiang Province, China. It is the most divergent division of Wu Chinese, and is sometimes considered a separate language. It features noticeable elements of Min, which borders it to the south...

, and Jinxiang dialect

Jinxiang dialect

Jinxiang dialect , is a Taihu Wu dialect, or a Northern Wu dialect, spoken in Cangnan county of Wenzhou prefecture-level city. It is considered to be a Taihu Wu linguistic exclave within the mostly Min Nan speaking part of Southern Zhejiang....

are also spoken.