Maonan District, Maoming City, Guangdong Province jurisdiction, is located in southwestern Guangdong Province, south of Maoming City.2020, under the jurisdiction of eight street offices and nine towns, the region has a total land area of 587.78 square kilometers. According to the seventh census data, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, Maonan District has a resident population of 1035,411 people.
Maonan District is the political, economic and cultural center of Maoming City, with a forested area of 9,675 hectares, a forest coverage rate of 16.3%, and a standing wood stock of 444,300 cubic meters. Important mineral resources include oil mother shale, kaolin, quartz sand and geothermal springs. The amount of oil mother shale available for exploitation is 4.462 billion tons, and it is the oil refining base in the south and the largest tilapia seed production base in Guangdong Province. Major tourist attractions include Maoming Forest Park, Maoming Open Pit Mine Ecological Park, Tooth and Elephant Earth Art Park, and Nan Yue 1959 Cultural and Creative Street.
In 2021, Maonan District (including the city) realized a gross regional product of 109.652 billion yuan, an increase of 6% over the previous year.