It is noted for being the ancestral hometown of overseas Chinese, spread across 34 nations and territories on 5 continents.

She established a second residence in the Tyler family's ancestral hometown of Brooklyn, Connecticut.

It is the most common surname in Xiamen, the ancestral hometown of many overseas Hoklo.

Her ancestral hometown is Taicang in Jiangsu province.

It is also the ancestral hometown of Andy Blignaut.

In later life, he considered himself to belong to the capital city of Chang'an, ancestral hometown of the Du family.

Suliman spent the first years of his life in his family's ancestral hometown.

This area in southern Guangdong Province is my wife's ancestral hometown.

Some 200 members of my landsmanschaft (ancestral hometown social organization) in Poland, including 16 distant relatives, are buried in a plot there.

Others went to the PRC after its reform and opening up, to pursue commercial opportunities or simply to return to their ancestral hometowns.