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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 ...
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.
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 ...
parts of Guangdong Province: Hainan Province: provincial established: Civil Affairs Announcement Haikou (PL-City) city district: Haikou (PL-City) city district: transferred Sanya (PL-City) city district: Sanya (PL-City) city district: transferred Hainan Administrative Region: provincial-controlled: disestablished & transferred ↳ Tongshi (CL-City)
The "Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area" is sometimes confused with the area of the Pearl River Delta and Guangdong province. While the geographical term “Pearl River Delta” was coined in 1947 reflecting the region's rich and diverse local histories, [9] the term “Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area” refers to a much larger area.
This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions in order of their Human Development Index (HDI), along with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan).
Throughout Guangdong Province, there are a large number of universities and colleges with a wide variety of orientations, of which about 30 are in the capital city of Guangzhou. Of the universities represented in Guangzhou, some have campuses in Huangpu, such as Guangzhou University , which maintains a research campus there. [ 37 ]
Tianhe District (Chinese: 天河区) is one of the eleven districts of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. In Chinese, the name Tianhe literally means "a river in the sky/heavens", which is also a Chinese name for the Milky Way.