Guangdong
Guangdong in South China 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, a border with Hong Kong, and as the ancestral homeland of many overseas Chinese.
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta is in Guangdong province, China. Photo: Hawyih, Public domain.Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a fast-paced city of ambition and enterprise: engineers on the cutting edge of modern… Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.Zhuhai
Zhuhai is a city in Guangdong Province, China. The name means Pearl Sea; Zhuhai is where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. Photo: 长夜无风, CC BY-SA 3.0.Destinations
Guangdong
Latitude of center
23.1358° or 23° 8' 9" northLongitude of center
113.1983° or 113° 11' 54" eastPopulation
104,000,000Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 244080439GeoNames ID
1809935Also Known As
- Achinese: Guangdong
- Afrikaans: Guangdong
- Afrikaans: Kwangdong
- Arabic: Guangdong
- Arabic: غوانغدونغ
- Arabic: قوانغدونغ
- Armenian: Գուանդուն
- Asturian; Bable: Guangdong
- Asturian; Bable: provincia de Cantón
- Azerbaijani: Quandun əyaləti
- Basque: Guangdong
- Belarusian: Гуандун
- Belarusian: Правінцыя Гуандун
- Bengali: কুয়াংতুং
- Bengali: গুয়াংডং
- Bengali: গুয়াংদং
- Bhojpuri: गुआंग्डोंग
- Bihari : 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
- Croatian: Guangdong
- Czech: Kuang-tung
- Danish: Guangdong
- Dutch: Guangdong
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: جوانجدونج
- English: Canton
- English: Canton Province
- English: Guangdong Province
- English: Guangdong province
- English: Kwangtung
- Esperanto: Gŭangdongo
- Estonian: Guangdong
- Finnish: Guangdong
- Finnish: Kanton
- French: Guangdong
- French: Province de Guangdong
- Gan Chinese: 广东省
- Gan Chinese: 廣東
- Georgian: გუანდუნი
- German: Guangdong
- Greek: Γκουανγκντόνγκ
- Greek: Κουανγκτούνγκ
- Greek: Κουανγκτόνγκ
- Gujarati: ગુઆંગડોંગ
- Hakka Chinese: Kóng-tûng
- Hausa: Kóng-tûng
- Hebrew: גואנגדונג
- Hindi: गुआंगदोंग
- Hindi: गुआंग्डोंग
- Hungarian: Kuangtung
- Icelandic: Guangdong
- Indonesian: Guangdong
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Guangdong
- Irish: Guangdong
- Italian: Guangdong
- Japanese: 広東
- Japanese: 広東省
- Kannada: ಗುಅಂಗ್ದೋಂಗ್
- Kannada: ಗುವಾಂಗ್ಡಾಂಗ್
- Kazakh: Гуандун
- Kongo: Guangdong
- Korean: 광동
- Korean: 광동성
- Korean: 광둥성
- Korean: 광둥 성
- Kurdish: Guangdong
- Latin: Quantunia
- Latvian: Guanduna
- Lithuanian: Guangdongas
- Macedonian: Гуангдунг
- Malagasy: Guangdong
- Malay (generic): Guangdong
- Malayalam: ഗ്വാങ്ഡോങ്
- Manipuri: ꯒ꯭ꯋꯥꯡꯗꯣꯡ
- Manx: Guangdong
- Marathi: क्वांगतोंग
- Min Dong Chinese: Guōng-dĕ̤ng
- Min Nan Chinese: Kńg-tang-séng
- Mingrelian: გუანდუნი
- Mongolian: Гуандун муж
- Mongolian: ꯒ꯭ꯋꯥꯡꯗꯣꯡ
- Northern Frisian: Guangdong
- Norwegian: Guangdong
- Norwegian Bokmål: Guangdong
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Guangdong
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Guangdong
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Гуандун
- Pampanga: Guangdong
- Panjabi: ਗੁਆਂਗਦੋਂਗ
- Persian: گوانگدونگ
- Polish: Guangdong
- Portuguese: Cantão
- Portuguese: Cantão (província)
- Portuguese: Guangdong
- Portuguese: Província de Cantão
- Quechua: Guangdong pruwinsya
- Romanian: Guangdong
- Russian: Гуандун
- Scots: Guangdong
- Serbian: Гуангдунг
- Serbo-Croatian: Guangdong
- Sindhi: گوئينگڊانگ صوبو
- Sinhalese: ගුවන්ග්ඩොන්ග්
- Slovenian: Guangdong
- Spanish: Provincia de Canton
- Spanish: Provincia de Cantón
- Swahili (generic): 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
- Urdu: گوانگڈونگ
- Uzbek: Guandun
- Uzbek: Guangun
- Venetian: Guangdong
- Vietnamese: Quảng Đông
- Vietnamese: tỉnh Quảng Đông
- Walloon: Gouangdong
- Waray (Philippines): Guangdong
- Welsh: Guangdong
- 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
- Kuang-tung Sheng
- Kwangtung Province
- Kwantung
- Կուանկտոնկ
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