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Guangdong, [ a ] previously romanized as Kwangtung or Canton, is a coastal province in South China, on the north shore of the South China Sea. [ 7 ] The provincial capital is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.84 million (as of 2021) [ 8 ] across a total area of about 179,800 km 2 (69,400 sq mi), [ 1 ] Guangdong is China's most populous ...
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) north-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.
Guangdong Provincial Assembly site Guangdong ziyiju jiuzhi 广东咨议局旧址: Guangzhou: 6-1019 Dalingshan Base in the War of Resistance against the Japanese Dalingshan kang-Ri genjudi jiuzhi 大岭山抗日根据地旧址: Dongguan: 6-1020
Shenzhen[a] is a city in Guangdong, China. A special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, and Macau to the southwest. With a population of 17.5 million in 2020, Shenzhen is the third most ...
Radio Guangdong begins broadcasting. 1952 – Guangzhou Daily newspaper begins publication. 1954 Guangzhou Evergrande Football Club formed. South China Institute of Botany active. [18] 1956 – Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine founded. 1957 Beijing–Guangzhou Railway in operation. Canton Fair begins. Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra founded.
A Cantonese gentleman in Qing-era traditional attire, c. 1873–1874. Cantonese people and their culture are centered in Guangdong, Eastern Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macau. Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, has been one of China's international trading ports since the Tang dynasty.
Zhongshan ([ʈʂʊ́ŋ ʂán]; Chinese: 中山) is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is now part of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen conurbation with 65,565,622 inhabitants. [1]
Chaozhou (Chinese: 潮州), alternatively Chiuchow, [3] Chaochow [4] or Teochew, [5] is a city in the eastern Guangdong province of China.It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province of Fujian to the east, and the South China Sea to the southeast.