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Guangzhou, [a] previously romanized as Canton [6] or Kwangchow, [7] is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. [8] Located on the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road.
Location of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province: Date: 29 January 2013: Source: This file was derived from: File:Map of Province in China 440000 広東省.svg: Author: Lincun: Permission (Reusing this file) GNU Free Documentation License
It is the largest and most populated urban area in the world. [5] The GBA—with a total population of approximately 86 million people—includes nine mega cities of Guangdong province: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Huizhou, and Zhaoqing as well as two special administrative regions, Hong Kong, and Macao ...
The province is now one of the richest in the nation, with the most billionaires in mainland China, [43] the highest GDP among all the provinces, although wage growth has only recently begun to rise due to a large influx of migrant workers from neighboring provinces. By 2015, the local government of Guangdong hopes that the service industry ...
Huizhou (Chinese: 惠州) is a city in central-east Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong.Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Heyuan to the northeast, Shanwei to the east, and Daya Bay of the South China Sea to the south.
The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region [a] is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea.Referred to as the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area in official documents, the region is one of the most densely populated and urbanized regions in the world, and is considered a megacity by numerous scholars. [2]
Guangzhou City 廣州市 5 120 244 inhab. and 282,93 km 2: Yuexiu, Liwan, Haizhu, Tianhe: Nanhai County, Guangdong 南海縣 part of Liwan, part of Baiyun: Panyu County, Guangdong 番禺縣 Panyu, Baiyun, Huangpu, Nansha, part of Tianhe: Hua County, Guangdong 花縣 Huadu: Conghua County, Guangdong 從化縣 Conghua: Zengcheng County, Guangdong ...
Geography of Guangdong Province — in the South China Region. ... Geography of Guangzhou (3 C, 2 P) Geography of Jiangmen (1 P) Geography of Shenzhen (4 C, 15 P)