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Guangdong in is the country's most populous province, and one of the richest. A global center for manufacturing and trade, Guangdong has a long history connecting China with the outside world, with maritime trade going back centuries, borders with and , and as the ancestral homeland of many overseas Chinese.
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is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18.7 million, making it China's fourth-largest city after Chongqing, Shanghai and Beijing.

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is a fast-paced city of ambition and enterprise: engineers on the cutting edge of modern technology, hardscrabble farmers coming to the big city in search of a better life, middle managers who dream of someday opening their own factories, designers looking to sell to a global market, and all manner of entrepreneurs from across China.

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is a city in Guangdong Province, . The name means Pearl Sea; is where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. is known for its beautiful long coastline, waving palm trees, open spaces, low population density, and its many islands; 's nicknames are the city of romance and the city of a hundred islands.

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The or PRD is in Guangdong province, . It is a bustling region with massive manufacturing and trade; most of it is heavily built up and densely populated.

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is in Guangdong Province in . This region is less developed and industrialised than the coastal regions of Guangdong, with beautiful mountain hikes, rainforests and communities of ethnic minorities.

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is a region in Guangdong Province in . The region takes its name from the its two main cities of Chaozhou and Shantou.

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is in Guangdong Province in .
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Guangdong

  • Type: State with 126,000,000 residents
  • Description: province of China
  • Also known as: “Canton Province”, “Guang Dong Sheng”, “Guangdong province”, “Guangdong Province”, “Guangdong Sheng”, “Kuang-tung”, “Kuang-tung Province”, “Kuang-tung Sheng”, “Kwan-toung”, “Kwang-tung”, “Kwangtoung”, “Kwangtung Province”, “Kwantoung”, “Province of Canton”, and “Province of Kwangtung”
  • Historically known as: “Canton” and “Kwangtung”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and
  • Categories: province of China and locality
  • Location: , , ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
23.1358° or 23° 8′ 9″ north
Longitude of center
113.1983° or 113° 11′ 54″ east
Population
126,000,000
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
Abbreviation
“粤”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080439
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1809935
Wiki­data ID
Q15175
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Guangdong” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Guangdong”
  • Afrikaans: “Guangdong”
  • Afrikaans: “Kwangdong”
  • Arabic: “غوانغدونغ”
  • Arabic: “قوانغدونغ”
  • Armenian: “Գուանդուն”
  • Asturian: “Guangdong”
  • Asturian: “provincia de Cantón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quandun vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quandun”
  • Balinese: “Guangdong”
  • Basque: “Guangdong”
  • Batak Toba: “Canton”
  • Batak Toba: “Kanton”
  • Belarusian: “Гуандун”
  • Bengali: “কুয়াংতুং”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াংডং”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াংদং”
  • Betawi: “Kanton”
  • Betawi: “Kwitang”
  • Bhojpuri: “गुआंग्डोंग”
  • Bosnian: “Guangdong”
  • Breton: “Guangdong”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуандун”
  • Burmese: “ကွမ်တုန်းပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Guangdong”
  • Cebuano: “Guangdong Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوانگدۆنگ”
  • Chechen: “Гуандун”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngdōng Shěng”
  • Chinese: “Kńg-tang-séng”
  • Chinese: “广东”
  • Chinese: “广东省”
  • Chinese: “廣東”
  • Chinese: “廣東省”
  • Chinese: “粤”
  • Chinese: “粤东”
  • Chinese: “粵”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Guañduñ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Guangdong”
  • Croatian: “Guangdong”
  • Czech: “Guangdong”
  • Czech: “Kuang-tung”
  • Danish: “Guangdong”
  • Dutch: “Guangdong”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوانجدونج”
  • Esperanto: “Gŭangdongo”
  • Estonian: “Guangdong”
  • Finnish: “Guangdong”
  • Finnish: “Kanton”
  • French: “Guangdong”
  • French: “Kwan-toung”
  • French: “Kwang-toung”
  • French: “Kwangtoung”
  • French: “Kwantoung”
  • French: “Province de Guangdong”
  • Galician: “Cantón”
  • Galician: “Guangdong”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Cantón”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Guangdong”
  • Gan Chinese: “广东省”
  • Gan Chinese: “廣東”
  • Georgian: “გუანდუნი”
  • Georgian: “კუანგტუნგი”
  • German: “Guangdong”
  • Greek: “Γκουανγκντόνγκ”
  • Greek: “Κουανγκτόνγκ”
  • Greek: “Κουανγκτούνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “ગુઆંગડોંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kóng-tûng”
  • Hebrew: “גואנגדונג”
  • Hindi: “गुआंगदोंग”
  • Hindi: “गुआंग्डोंग”
  • Hungarian: “Kuangtung”
  • Icelandic: “Guangdong”
  • Ido: “Provinco Guangdong”
  • Indonesian: “Guangdong”
  • Interlingua: “Guangdong”
  • Irish: “Guangdong”
  • Italian: “Guangdong”
  • Japanese: “広東”
  • Japanese: “広東省”
  • Kannada: “ಗುಅಂಗ್ದೋಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾಂಗ್ಡಾಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Гуандун”
  • Khmer: “ក្វាងតុង”
  • Kongo: “Guangdong”
  • Korean: “광동”
  • Korean: “광동성”
  • Korean: “광둥 성”
  • Korean: “광둥성”
  • Kurdish: “Guangdong”
  • Latin: “Quantunia”
  • Latvian: “Guanduna”
  • Literary Chinese: “廣東”
  • Literary Chinese: “粵”
  • Literary Chinese: “粵東”
  • Literary Chinese: “粵省”
  • Lithuanian: “Guangdongas”
  • Lombard: “Guangdong”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guangdong”
  • Macedonian: “Гуангдонг”
  • Macedonian: “Гуангдунг”
  • Malagasy: “Guangdong”
  • Malay: “Guangdong”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാങ്‌ഡോങ്”
  • Maltese: “Guangdong”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒ꯭ꯋꯥꯡꯗꯣꯡ”
  • Manx: “Guangdong”
  • Marathi: “क्वांगतोंग”
  • Mazanderani: “گوانگ‌دونگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guōng-dĕ̤ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kńg-tang-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kúiⁿ-tang”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kuínn-tang”
  • Mingrelian: “გუანდუნი”
  • Mongolian: “Гуандун муж”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڭوانڭدونڭ”
  • Nepali: “ग्वाङडोङ”
  • Nepali: “ग्वाङदोङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guangdong”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guangdong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guangdong”
  • Norwegian: “Guangdong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guangdong”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Canton þæt Underrīce”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Canton”
  • Ossetian: “Гуандун”
  • Pampanga: “Guangdong”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਂਗਦੋਂਗ”
  • Persian: “گوانگ‌دونگ”
  • Polish: “Guangdong”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão (província)”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão”
  • Portuguese: “Guangdong”
  • Portuguese: “província de Cantão”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Cantão”
  • Portuguese: “província de Guangdong”
  • Pushto: “ګوانګډونګ”
  • Pushto: “گوانگډونگ”
  • Quechua: “Guangdong pruwinsya”
  • Quechua: “Guangdong puruwinsiya”
  • Romanian: “Guangdong”
  • Russian: “Гуандун”
  • Scots: “Guangdong”
  • Serbian: “Guangdung”
  • Serbian: “Гуангдунг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guangdong”
  • Sindhi: “گوئينگڊانگ صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “ගුවන්ග්ඩොන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Guangdong”
  • Slovak: “Kuang-tung”
  • Slovenian: “Guangdong”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton”
  • Spanish: “Cantón”
  • Spanish: “Guangdong”
  • Spanish: “provincia de Cantón”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Cantón”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Guangdong”
  • Swahili: “Guangdong”
  • Swedish: “Guangdong”
  • Tagalog: “Guangdong”
  • Tajik: “Гуандун”
  • Tamil: “குங்டாங்”
  • Tamil: “குவாங்டாங்”
  • Tamil: “குவாங்டொங்”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాంగ్‌డాంగ్”
  • Thai: “มณฑลกวางตุ้ง”
  • Tibetan: “ཀོང་ཏུང་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Turkish: “Guangdong”
  • Uighur: “گۇئاڭدوڭ ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуандун”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґуандун”
  • Urdu: “گوانگڈونگ”
  • Uzbek: “Guandun”
  • Uzbek: “Guangun”
  • Venetian: “Guangdong”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng Đông”
  • Vietnamese: “tỉnh Quảng Đông”
  • Walloon: “Gouangdong”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guangdong”
  • Welsh: “Guangdong”
  • Western Armenian: “Կուանկտոնկ”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوانگڈونگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “广东”
  • Wu Chinese: “广东省”
  • Wu Chinese: “粤”
  • Wu Chinese: “粤东”
  • Wu Chinese: “粤省”
  • Yakut: “Гуандун”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣東”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣東省”
  • Yue Chinese: “粵”
  • Yue Chinese: “粵東”
  • Yue Chinese: “粵省”
  • Zhuang: “Gvangjdungh”
  • “ma kipisi Konton”
  • “गुआंग्डोंग”

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