Swatow

Swatow, a seaport of China which has been opened to foreign trade since 1869, stands at the mouth of the river Han, 225 miles E. of Canton, in the province of Kwang-tung. It is the seat of great sugar-refineries and bean-cake and grass-cloth manufactures. In 1897 its direct trade with foreign countries was valued at—imports, £1,573,550; exports, £553,700. The chief imports are beans, cotton, opium, rice, metals, &c. The chief exports are sugar, tobacco, grass-cloth, cloth and nankeen, tea, &c. Pop. (1897) 35,000.