Enping is located in southwest Guangdong, at the western edge of the Pearl River Delta and beside the South China Sea.

Under the Qing, it made up part of the commandery of Zhaoqing[1] and was one of the Four Counties responsible for much of the early Chinese diaspora from Guangdong in the 19th century.

Migrants from Enping and their families make up about 200,000 of the country's estimated 400,000 Chinese.

Emigration to Venezuela occurred primarily in the decades including and following the World Wars, with the largest batch leaving at the end of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s.

Enping comprises 10 towns, 3 sub-district offices, 4 farms and stations, and 174 village neighborhood committees.