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Canton Tower

The Canton Tower, formally Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower, is a 600 m -tall multipurpose observation in the Haizhu District of .
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  • Type: Tower
  • Description: Canton television and tourism tower
  • Also known as: “Guangzhou Tower”, “Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower”, and “小蛮腰”
  • Address: 阅江西路, 广州市, 海珠区

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Canton Tower and Haixinsha.

Metro station
Photo: Nissangeniss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
station is an interchange station between Line 3 and the APM line of the Guangzhou Metro. It is also the southern terminus of the APM line. is situated 120 metres west of Canton Tower.

Railway station
Photo: GZMTR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a metro station of the Guangzhou Metro APM line. It is located at the underground of Island, venue of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Asian Games. is situated 590 metres north of Canton Tower.

Museum
Photo: Shujianyang, CC0.
The is a general museum of art, nature, culture and history in . It covers both local art and artifacts from the Guangdong province as well as general Chinese art. is situated 1 km north of Canton Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Liede and Zhujiang New Town.

Village
Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Tianhe District, , . It was established in 1999.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Zhujiang New City is a central business district in Tianhe District, city, province, . It is bounded by Huangpu Avenue on the north, the Pearl River on the south, Guangzhou Avenue on the west and the South China Expressway on the east.

Village
Wuyang New Town is a place in , , . It is located at the west of and the north of in Yuexiu District.

Canton Tower

Latitude
23.10902° or 23° 6′ 33″ north
Longitude
113.31915° or 113° 19′ 9″ east
Inception
September 28th, 2010
Levels
37
Open location code
7PMM4859+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 584204634
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­tower
Geo­Names ID
8030259
Wiki­data ID
Q168400
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Satellite Map

Discover Canton Tower from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zhuang—“Canton Tower” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برج كانتون”
  • Armenian: “Գուանչժոու հեռուստաաշտարակ”
  • Asturian: “Torre de televisión de Cantón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quançjou teleqülləsi”
  • Basque: “Canton dorrea”
  • Basque: “Canton Dorrea”
  • Belarusian: “Тэлевежа Гуанчжоу”
  • Belarusian: “Тэлевежа Гуанчжоў”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টন টাওয়ার”
  • Central Bikol: “Canton Tower”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngzhōu tǎ”
  • Chinese: “广州塔”
  • Chinese: “广州新电视塔”
  • Chinese: “广州电视观光塔”
  • Chinese: “廣州塔”
  • Czech: “Televizní věž v Kantonu”
  • Danish: “Canton Tower”
  • Danish: “Guangzhou Tower”
  • Dutch: “Canton Tower”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برج كانتون”
  • Esperanto: “Kantona Turo”
  • Estonian: “Guangzhou Tower”
  • Estonian: “Kantoni Torn”
  • Finnish: “Kantonin televisiotorni”
  • Finnish: “Kantonin torni”
  • French: “Canton Tour”
  • French: “Nouvelle tour de télévision de Canton”
  • French: “tour Canton”
  • French: “Tour Canton”
  • French: “Tour de télévision et de tourisme de Canton”
  • Galician: “Torre de televisión de Cantón”
  • German: “Canton Tower”
  • Greek: “Πύργος Κάντον”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל קנטון”
  • Hindi: “केन्तोन टवर”
  • Hungarian: “Kanton Torony”
  • Indonesian: “Menara Kanton”
  • Italian: “Canton Tower”
  • Italian: “Torre di Canton”
  • Japanese: “こうしゅうとう”
  • Japanese: “広州タワー”
  • Japanese: “広州テレビ・観光塔”
  • Japanese: “広州塔”
  • Japanese: “廣州新電視塔”
  • Japanese: “廣州電視塔”
  • Japanese: “海心塔”
  • Javanese: “Menara Canton”
  • Korean: “광저우 타워”
  • Macedonian: “Кантонска кула”
  • Malay: “Menara Canton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canton Tower”
  • Norwegian: “Canton Tower”
  • Persian: “برج کانتون”
  • Polish: “Canton Tower”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Cantão”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de televisão de Cantão”
  • Romanian: “Turnul de televiziune din Guangzhou”
  • Russian: “Телебашня Гуанчжоу”
  • Serbian: “Кантонски торањ”
  • Slovak: “Canton Tower”
  • Slovak: “Kantonská veža”
  • Slovak: “Kuang-čou tien-š’ kuan-kuang tcha”
  • Slovenian: “Kantonski stolp”
  • Spanish: “Torre de telecomunicaciones de Cantón”
  • Spanish: “Torre de television de Canton”
  • Spanish: “Torre de televisión de Cantón”
  • Swedish: “Canton Tower”
  • Tamil: “கன்டொண் கோபுரம்”
  • Thai: “แคนตันทาวเวอร์”
  • Turkish: “Kanton Kulesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Телевежа Гуанчжоу”
  • Ukrainian: “Телевежа Ґуанчжоу”
  • Uzbek: “Guanchjou teleminorasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Tháp Quảng Châu”
  • Wu Chinese: “广州塔”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣州塔”
  • Zhuang: “Dap Gvangjcouh”
  • Zhuang: “Gvangjcouh Dap”

Localities in the Area

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Canton Tower”. Photo: Colin Zhu, CC BY-SA 2.0.