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Pearl River Delta

The Pearl River Delta or PRD is in 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 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 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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, alternately romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Province in southern China. It consists of three urban districts, , and the more rural Siyi, which is the ancestral homeland of approximately 4 million overseas Chinese.

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is in the Pearl River Delta region of , about 100 km from . It's a major manufacturing center, producing an estimated one fifth of the world's smartphones and one tenth of the world's shoes.

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is an industrial city in . Though it has about seven million people, it is relatively little known and feels almost like an extension of ; hence the saying "Guangzhou and are the same city".

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is a city in . It is one of the most architecturally pleasing mid-sized cities in all of Guangdong, and one of the very richest.

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is a city in Province just north of . is most famous as the birthplace of Chinese national hero Sun Yat-Sen. It's now something of a manufacturing center, like the rest of the Pearl River Delta, but it's quieter than the other cities in the area and still has lots of farmland and small towns.

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is a city, officially a district of , in Province in . is well-known in Guangdong province as a place with great Cantonese food, as many of the top Cantonese chefs around the world were trained in .

Town is a town in City, China, on the east bank of the Pearl River. It has a permanent population of 93,000 with official residency, but more than 400,000 who have migrated from elsewhere in China.

Pearl River Delta

Latitude of center
22.5333° or 22° 32′ north
Longitude of center
113.7333° or 113° 44′ east
Wiki­data ID
Q1144286
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Pearl River Delta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دلتا نهر اللؤلؤة”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mirvari çayı deltası”
  • Basque: “Perla ibaiaren delta”
  • Belarusian: “Дэльта Пэрліннай ракі”
  • Bengali: “চুচিয়াং নদীর ব-দ্বীপ অববাহিকা”
  • Catalan: “Delta del riu Perla”
  • Cebuano: “Zhujiang Kou”
  • Chinese: “珠三角”
  • Chinese: “珠三角地區”
  • Chinese: “珠江三角洲”
  • Chinese: “珠江口”
  • Czech: “Delta Perlové řeky”
  • Dutch: “Parelrivierdelta”
  • Dutch: “Pearl River Delta”
  • Esperanto: “Delto de Perlorivero”
  • Esperanto: “Perlorivera Delto”
  • French: “delta de la rivière des Perles”
  • French: “Delta de la rivière des Perles”
  • Galician: “Delta do Río das Perlas”
  • German: “Perlflussdelta”
  • Hebrew: “הדלתה של נהר הפנינה”
  • Hungarian: “A Gyöngy-folyó deltájának városintegrációja”
  • Indonesian: “Delta Sungai Mutiara”
  • Italian: “delta del fiume delle Perle”
  • Italian: “Delta del fiume delle Perle”
  • Japanese: “珠三角”
  • Japanese: “珠江デルタ”
  • Japanese: “珠江三角洲”
  • Korean: “주강 델타 지역”
  • Korean: “주강 델타”
  • Korean: “주강 삼각주 경제권”
  • Korean: “주강 삼각주”
  • Korean: “주장 삼각주”
  • Latvian: “Pērļu upes delta”
  • Lithuanian: “Perlų upės delta”
  • Malayalam: “പേൾ റിവർ ഡെൽറ്റ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Perleflodens delta”
  • Norwegian: “Perleflodens delta”
  • Persian: “دلتای رود مروارید”
  • Polish: “Delta Rzeki Perłowej”
  • Polish: “Region Metropolitalny Delty Rzeki Perłowej”
  • Portuguese: “Delta do Rio das Pérolas”
  • Russian: “Дельта Жемчужной реки”
  • Russian: “Дельта реки Чжуцзян”
  • Russian: “Кантонский залив”
  • Russian: “Чжуцзянкоу”
  • Slovenian: “delta Biserne reke”
  • Slovenian: “Delta Biserne reke”
  • Spanish: “delta del rio de las Perlas”
  • Spanish: “delta del río de las Perlas”
  • Spanish: “Delta del río de las Perlas”
  • Swedish: “Pärlflodens delta”
  • Swedish: “Zhujiang Kou”
  • Turkish: “İnci Nehri Deltası”
  • Ukrainian: “Дельта Перлинної ріки”
  • Ukrainian: “Дельта Чжуцзян”
  • Uzbek: “Chjutszyankou”
  • Vietnamese: “Đồng bằng Châu Giang”
  • Vietnamese: “Đồng bằng châu thổ Châu Giang”
  • Welsh: “Delta Afon Perl”
  • Wu Chinese: “珠江三角洲”
  • Yue Chinese: “珠三角”
  • Yue Chinese: “珠江三角洲”
  • Yue Chinese: “珠江口”

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