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Guangzhou

Guangzhou 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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Yuexiu.

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is in province in south . Serving the Pearl River Delta area, it offers an extensive range of domestic flights to most major Chinese cities, as well as direct international routes to Europe, North America, , , , , , the and .

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is a central district in Guangzhou. The old walled city of Guangzhou was here, though it has been mostly redeveloped. is now the political and cultural center of Guangzhou, with many museums, holy sites, and urban parks.

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is the new city center and business district of Guangzhou. It is thriving with many new developments, including skyscrapers, stadium, grand shopping malls.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Liwan and Panyu and Nansha.

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District is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of province, . The district is split into two parts by the Pearl River: Xiguan in the northeast and Fangcun in the southwest.

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are two districts of Guangzhou in 's province, and within the .

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Zengcheng District is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of , China.

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is a district in Guangzhou. It lies just south of historic Guangzhou, across the Pearl River. Locals refer to this part of Guangzhou as Henan, meaning south of the river.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Huaisheng Mosque and Yuexiushan Stadium.

Mosque
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The is the main of Guangzhou, located in the Yuexiu District, in the of . Rebuilt many times over its history, some historical texts claim that it was first built in the 7th century, but modern scholarship places its foundation at a later period during the Tang or Song dynasties.

Stadium
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The is a multi-purpose stadium in Guangzhou, , China, named after its location at the foot of . It is currently mostly used for football matches and also sometimes for athletics.

Museum
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The , now part of the Nanyue King Museum, houses the 2,000-year-old tomb of the Nanyue King Zhao Mo in Guangzhou.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dengfeng and Dadong.

Suburb
is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern .

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is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.

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is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.

Guangzhou

Latitude
23.1288° or 23° 7′ 44″ north
Longitude
113.259° or 113° 15′ 32″ east
Population
14,000,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
CAN
United Nations Location Code
CN GGZ
Open location code
7PMM47H5+GJ
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
1809858
Wiki­data ID
Q16572
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Guangzhou” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Guangzhou”
  • Afrikaans: “Guangzhou”
  • Afrikaans: “Kwangtsjou”
  • Albanian: “Guangzhou”
  • Amharic: “ጓንግዦው”
  • Arabic: “جوانج زاو”
  • Arabic: “جوانزو”
  • Arabic: “صين كلان”
  • Arabic: “غوانجو”
  • Arabic: “غوانزو”
  • Arabic: “قوانتشو”
  • Arabic: “قوانجو”
  • Arabic: “قوانغتشو”
  • Arabic: “كانتون (مدينة بالصين)”
  • Arabic: “كوانجو”
  • Arabic: “كوانزو”
  • Armenian: “Գուանճոու”
  • Armenian: “Գուանչժոու”
  • Asturian: “Cantón”
  • Asturian: “Guangzhou”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quançjou”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quanqcou”
  • Balinese: “Guangzhou”
  • Bambara: “Guangzhou”
  • Bashkir: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Basque: “Guangzhou”
  • Belarusian: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Belarusian: “Гуанчжоў”
  • Belarusian: “Кантон”
  • Bengali: “কুয়াংচৌ”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টন”
  • Bengali: “গুয়ংঝো”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াংজু”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াংঝু”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াংঝৌ”
  • Bosnian: “Guangzhou”
  • Bosnian: “Kanton”
  • Breton: “Guangzhou”
  • Breton: “Kanton”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуанджоу”
  • Burmese: “ကွမ်ကျိုးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Canton”
  • Catalan: “Guangzhou”
  • Cebuano: “Guangzhou”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوانگژۆو”
  • Chechen: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Cheyenne: “Guangzhou”
  • Chinese: “Guăngzhōu Shì”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngzhōu Shì”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngzhōu”
  • Chinese: “Kńg-chiu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “五羊城”
  • Chinese: “广州”
  • Chinese: “广州市”
  • Chinese: “廣”
  • Chinese: “廣州”
  • Chinese: “廣州市”
  • Chinese: “番禺”
  • Chinese: “穗”
  • Chinese: “穗城”
  • Chinese: “粤”
  • Chinese: “羊城”
  • Chinese: “花城”
  • Chuvash: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Cornish: “Guangzhou”
  • Croatian: “Guangzhou”
  • Croatian: “Kanton” (historical)
  • Czech: “Kanton”
  • Czech: “Kuang-čou”
  • Danish: “Guangzhou”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guangzhou”
  • Dutch: “Guangzhou”
  • Dutch: “Kanton”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوانزو”
  • Esperanto: “Guǎngzhōu”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono”
  • Estonian: “Guangzhou”
  • Extremaduran: “Cantón”
  • Faroese: “Guangzhou”
  • Fijian: “Guagasu”
  • Fijian: “Guangzhou”
  • Finnish: “Guangzhou”
  • Finnish: “Kanton”
  • French: “Cantam”
  • French: “Canton”
  • French: “Guangzhou”
  • Galician: “Cantón, China”
  • Galician: “Cantón”
  • Gan Chinese: “广州”
  • Gan Chinese: “广州市”
  • Gan Chinese: “廣州”
  • Georgian: “გუანჯოუ”
  • German: “Guangzhou”
  • German: “Kanton”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌽𐍄𐍉”
  • Greek: “Γκουανγκτζόου”
  • Greek: “Κουανγκτσόου”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વાંગજ્હો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kóng-chiu-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kóng-chû-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Guangzhou”
  • Hebrew: “גואנג’ואו”
  • Hebrew: “גואנגג’ואו”
  • Hebrew: “גואנגגואו”
  • Hebrew: “גואנגז’ו”
  • Hindi: “ग्वांगझोउ”
  • Hungarian: “Kanton”
  • Icelandic: “Guangzhou”
  • Ido: “Guangzhou”
  • Indonesian: “Guangzhou”
  • Interlingue: “Guangzhou”
  • Irish: “Guangzhou”
  • Italian: “Canton”
  • Italian: “Guangzhou”
  • Japanese: “Hiroshū”
  • Japanese: “Kōshū”
  • Japanese: “広州”
  • Japanese: “広州市”
  • Japanese: “穂”
  • Japanese: “穂城”
  • Japanese: “羊城”
  • Japanese: “花城”
  • Kalaallisut: “Guangzhou”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಟಂ”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾಂಗ್‌ಝೌ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Guangjow”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Kazakh: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Khmer: “ក្វាងចូវ”
  • Kikuyu: “Guangzhou”
  • Kirghiz: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Korean: “광저우 시”
  • Korean: “광저우”
  • Korean: “광저우시”
  • Kurdish: “Guangzhou”
  • Lao: “ກວ່າງໂຈວ”
  • Latin: “Guangzhou”
  • Latin: “Quancheum”
  • Latvian: “Guandžou”
  • Latvian: “Kantona”
  • Lingala: “Guangzhou”
  • Literary Chinese: “廣州市”
  • Lithuanian: “Guangdžou”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guangzhou”
  • Macedonian: “Гуангџоу”
  • Maithili: “ग्वांगझोउ”
  • Malagasy: “Guangzhou”
  • Malay: “Guangzhou”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാങ്ജോ”
  • Maltese: “Canton”
  • Maltese: “Guangzhou”
  • Maori: “Guangzhou”
  • Marathi: “क्वांगचौ”
  • Mazanderani: “گوانگجو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guōng-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kńg-chiu-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “გუანჯოუ”
  • Mingrelian: “კანტონი”
  • Mingrelian: “კვონგჩოუ”
  • Mingrelian: “კუანგჩოუ”
  • Mongolian: “Гуанжоу”
  • Nepali: “ग्वाङझाउ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guangzhou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guangzhou”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guangzhou”
  • Norwegian: “Guangzhou”
  • Norwegian: “Kanton”
  • Nyanja: “Guangzhou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guangzou”
  • Ossetian: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Pampanga: “Guangzhou”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਂਗਜ਼ੂ”
  • Persian: “گوانجو”
  • Persian: “گوانگ‌ژو”
  • Persian: “گوانگ‌ژوو”
  • Piemontese: “Cantòn”
  • Polish: “Guangzhou”
  • Polish: “Kanton”
  • Portuguese: “Cantam”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão (Cantão)”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão (cidade)”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão”
  • Portuguese: “Guangzhou”
  • Quechua: “Guangzhou”
  • Romanian: “Guangzhou”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Russian: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Russian: “Кантон” (historical)
  • Sakizaya: “Guangzhou”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱩᱣᱟᱝᱡᱚᱣ”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱮᱱᱴᱚᱱ”
  • Scots: “Canton”
  • Scots: “Guangzhou”
  • Serbian: “Гуангџоу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guangzhou”
  • Silesian: “Kantůn (Chiny)”
  • Silesian: “Kantůn”
  • Sindhi: “گوانگزو”
  • Sinhala: “ගුවන්ෂෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ගුවාන්සෝ”
  • Slovak: “Kanton”
  • Slovenian: “Guangdžov”
  • Slovenian: “Gvangdžov”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوانگژو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانتون”
  • Spanish: “Canton”
  • Spanish: “Cantón”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de la Ciencia”
  • Spanish: “Guangzhou”
  • Swahili: “Guangzhou”
  • Swedish: “Guangzhou”
  • Tagalog: “Guangzhou”
  • Tajik: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Tamil: “குவாங்சோ”
  • Tamil: “குவாங்சௌ”
  • Tamil: “குவான்சூ”
  • Tamil: “க்வாங்ஜோ”
  • Tatar: “Kanton”
  • Tatar: “Гваңҗу”
  • Tatar: “Гуаңҗу”
  • Telugu: “గాంజో”
  • Thai: “กว่างโจว”
  • Tibetan: “ཀོང་ཀྲོའུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Guangsu”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Guangzhou”
  • Tswana: “Guangzhou”
  • Turkish: “Guangzhou”
  • Turkmen: “Guanjzo”
  • Uighur: “گۇاڭجۇ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуанчжоу”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґуанчжоу”
  • Ukrainian: “Кантон”
  • Urdu: “گوانگژو”
  • Uzbek: “Guanchjou”
  • Uzbek: “Kanton”
  • Veps: “Guančžou”
  • Veps: “Kanton”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng Châu thị”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng Châu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guangzhou”
  • Welsh: “Guangzhou”
  • Western Panjabi: “شینیانگ”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوانگژو”
  • Wolof: “Guangzhou”
  • Wu Chinese: “广州”
  • Yakut: “Гуандьоу”
  • Yue Chinese: “Gwong Zau”
  • Yue Chinese: “Kwong Chau”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣州”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣州市”
  • Yue Chinese: “羊城”
  • Yue Chinese: “花城”
  • Zhuang: “Gvangjcouh”
  • “ma tomo Kansu”
  • “广州”

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