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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Guangdong</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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title="Guangdong – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA" title="غوانغدونغ – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="غوانغدونغ" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%82" title="কুয়াংতুং – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="কুয়াংতুং" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%84g-tang-s%C3%A9ng" title="Kńg-tang-séng – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Kńg-tang-séng" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97" title="गुआंग्डोंग – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="गुआंग्डोंग" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%80%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%8F%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%9E%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%86%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8D" title="ཀོང་ཏུང་ཞིང་ཆེན། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཀོང་ཏུང་ཞིང་ཆེན།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong_Sheng" title="Guangdong Sheng – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Guangdong Sheng" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuang-tung" title="Kuang-tung – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Kuang-tung" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA" title="Γκουανγκντόνγκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γκουανγκντόνγκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_de_Cant%C3%B3n" title="Provincia de Cantón – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Provincia de Cantón" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C5%ADangdongo" title="Gŭangdongo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Gŭangdongo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF" title="گوانگ‌دونگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گوانگ‌دونگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_de_Cant%C3%B3n" title="Provincia de Cantón – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Provincia de Cantón" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BB%A3%E6%9D%B1" title="廣東 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="廣東" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B3ng-t%C3%BBng" title="Kóng-tûng – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Kóng-tûng" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B4%91%EB%91%A5%EC%84%B1" title="광둥성 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="광둥성" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Գուանդուն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Գուանդուն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97" title="गुआंगदोंग – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="गुआंगदोंग" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinco_Guangdong" title="Provinco Guangdong – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Provinco Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%92" title="גואנגדונג – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="גואנגדונג" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%92%E1%83%A3%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="გუანდუნი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="გუანდუნი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kg mw-list-item"><a href="https://kg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Kongo" lang="kg" hreflang="kg" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Kongo" data-language-local-name="Kongo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kongo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantunia" title="Quantunia – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Quantunia" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanduna" title="Guanduna – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Guanduna" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdongas" title="Guangdongas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Guangdongas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuangtung" title="Kuangtung – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kuangtung" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Гуангдонг – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Гуангдонг" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D" title="ഗ്വാങ്‌ഡോങ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഗ്വാങ്‌ഡോങ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97" title="क्वांगतोंग – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="क्वांगतोंग" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%92%E1%83%A3%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="გუანდუნი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="გუანდუნი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC" title="جوانجدونج – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جوانجدونج" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF" title="گوانگ‌دونگ – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="گوانگ‌دونگ" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%92%EA%AF%AD%EA%AF%8B%EA%AF%A5%EA%AF%A1%EA%AF%97%EA%AF%A3%EA%AF%A1" title="ꯒ꯭ꯋꯥꯡꯗꯣꯡ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯒ꯭ꯋꯥꯡꯗꯣꯡ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C5%8Dng-d%C4%95%CC%A4ng" title="Guōng-dĕ̤ng – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Guōng-dĕ̤ng" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B6" title="Гуандун муж – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Гуандун муж" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%80%E1%80%BD%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%80%90%E1%80%AF%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%8A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA" title="ကွမ်တုန်းပြည်နယ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ကွမ်တုန်းပြည်နယ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%99%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%99" title="ग्वाङदोङ – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="ग्वाङदोङ" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%83%E6%9D%B1%E7%9C%81" title="広東省 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="広東省" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guandun" title="Guandun – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Guandun" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%86%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%97" title="ਗੁਆਂਗਦੋਂਗ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਗੁਆਂਗਦੋਂਗ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%DA%88%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF" title="گوانگڈونگ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="گوانگڈونگ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%80%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%9C%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%84%E1%9E%8F%E1%9E%BB%E1%9E%84" title="ក្វាងតុង – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="ក្វាងតុង" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cant%C3%A3o_(prov%C3%ADncia)" title="Cantão (província) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Cantão (província)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua%C3%B1du%C3%B1" title="Guañduñ – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Guañduñ" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong_puruwinsiya" title="Guangdong puruwinsiya – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Guangdong puruwinsiya" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%86%DA%AF%DA%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88" title="گوئينگڊانگ صوبو – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="گوئينگڊانگ صوبو" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%AF%DB%86%D9%86%DA%AF" title="گوانگدۆنگ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="گوانگدۆنگ" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdung" title="Guangdung – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Guangdung" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propinsi_Guangdong" title="Propinsi Guangdong – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Propinsi Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D" title="குவாங்டொங் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="குவாங்டொங்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%93%E0%B8%91%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B8%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%87" title="มณฑลกวางตุ้ง – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="มณฑลกวางตุ้ง" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD" title="Гуандун – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Гуандун" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%DA%88%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF" title="گوانگڈونگ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="گوانگڈونگ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%DB%87%D8%A6%D8%A7%DA%AD%D8%AF%D9%88%DA%AD_%D8%A6%DB%86%D9%84%D9%83%D9%89%D8%B3%D9%89" title="گۇئاڭدوڭ ئۆلكىسى – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="گۇئاڭدوڭ ئۆلكىسى" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-za mw-list-item"><a href="https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gvangjdungh" title="Gvangjdungh – Zhuang" lang="za" hreflang="za" data-title="Gvangjdungh" data-language-autonym="Vahcuengh" data-language-local-name="Zhuang" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vahcuengh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%C3%B4ng" title="Quảng Đông – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Quảng Đông" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa mw-list-item"><a href="https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouangdong" title="Gouangdong – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="Gouangdong" data-language-autonym="Walon" data-language-local-name="Walloon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Walon</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BB%A3%E6%9D%B1%E7%9C%81" title="廣東省 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="廣東省" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>文言</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Guangdong" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81" title="广东省 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="广东省" 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agent"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong_Provincial_People%27s_Congress&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Guangdong Provincial People&#39;s Congress (page does not exist)">Guangdong Provincial People's Congress</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;">&#160;&#91;<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BB%A3%E6%9D%B1%E7%9C%81%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E4%BB%A3%E8%A1%A8%E5%A4%A7%E6%9C%83" class="extiw" title="zh:廣東省人民代表大會">zh</a>&#93;</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">&#160;•&#160;<a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_Secretary_of_Guangdong" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong">Party Secretary</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Huang_Kunming" title="Huang Kunming">Huang Kunming</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">&#160;•&#160;Congress Chairman</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Huang_Chuping_(politician)" title="Huang 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href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span>Kuang<sup>3</sup>-tung<sup>1</sup></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tongyong_Pinyin" title="Tongyong Pinyin">Tongyong Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Guǎngdong</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Mandarin" title="Yale romanization of Mandarin">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Gwǎngdūng</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Phonetic_Symbols_II" title="Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II">MPS2</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Guǎngdūng</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="cmn-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[kwa&#768;ŋ.tʊ&#769;ŋ]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Wu_Chinese" title="Wu Chinese">Wu</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Wu_Chinese" title="Romanization of Wu Chinese">Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Wu Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="wuu-Latn">kuaon ton (T2)</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Hakka_Chinese" title="Hakka Chinese">Hakka</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Romanization#Hakka" title="Guangdong Romanization">Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Hakka-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="hak-Latn"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span>Gong<sup>3</sup>dung<sup>1</sup></span></li><li><i>or</i></li><li>Kóng-tûng</li></ul></div></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" title="Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Gwóngdùng</li><li><i>or</i></li><li>Gwóngdūng</li></ul></div></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">gwong2 dung1</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Romanization" title="Guangdong Romanization">Canton Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><span>Guong<sup>2</sup>-dung<sup>1</sup></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="IPA" lang="yue-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">[kʷɔŋ˧˥.tʊŋ˥˧]</a></span></li><li><i>or</i></li><li><span class="IPA" lang="yue-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">[kʷɔŋ˧˥.tʊŋ˥]</a></span></li></ul></div></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Yue_Chinese" title="Yue Chinese">other Yue</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Taishanese" title="Taishanese">Taishanese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">Kwong˧˥ tung˥</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Min" title="Southern Min">Southern Min</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hokkien" title="Hokkien">Hokkien</a> <a href="/wiki/Pe%CC%8Dh-%C5%8De-j%C4%AB" title="Pe̍h-ōe-jī">POJ</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Kńg-tang</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_Romanization_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiwanese Romanization System">Tâi-lô</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Kńg-tang</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hainanese" title="Hainanese">Hainanese</a> Romanization</th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Kèng-dang</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Leizhou_Min" title="Leizhou Min">Leizhou</a> Romanization</th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Gèng-tang</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Min" title="Eastern Min">Eastern Min</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Fuzhou_dialect" title="Fuzhou dialect">Fuzhou</a> <a href="/wiki/Foochow_Romanized" class="mw-redirect" title="Foochow Romanized">BUC</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Dong Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="cdo-Latn">Guōng-dĕ̤ng</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Middle_Chinese" title="Middle Chinese">Middle Chinese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Middle_Chinese" title="Middle Chinese">Middle Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Late Middle Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="ltc-Latn">kwang<sup>X</sup> tung</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Abbreviation</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified&#160;Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans" style="font-size: 1rem;">粤</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional&#160;Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant" style="font-size: 1rem;">粵</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;">Literal meaning</th><td class="infobox-data">[an ancient name for southern China's <a href="/wiki/Baiyue" title="Baiyue">Baiyue</a>]</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Yuè</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Bopomofo" title="Bopomofo">Bopomofo</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">ㄩㄝˋ</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Spelling_in_Gwoyeu_Romatzyh" title="Spelling in Gwoyeu Romatzyh">Gwoyeu Romatzyh</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Yueh</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span>Yüeh<sup>4</sup></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tongyong_Pinyin" title="Tongyong Pinyin">Tongyong Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Yuè</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Mandarin" title="Yale romanization of Mandarin">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Ywè</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Phonetic_Symbols_II" title="Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II">MPS2</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Yuè</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="cmn-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[ɥe&#770;]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Hakka_Chinese" title="Hakka Chinese">Hakka</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Romanization#Hakka" title="Guangdong Romanization">Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Hakka-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="hak-Latn"><span>Yet<sup>6</sup></span> <i>or</i> Ye̍t</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" title="Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">Yuht</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">jyut6</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Romanization" title="Guangdong Romanization">Canton Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><span>Yüd<sup>6</sup></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="yue-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">[jyt̚˨]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Yue_Chinese" title="Yue Chinese">other Yue</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Taishanese" title="Taishanese">Taishanese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">Yut ˨</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Min" title="Southern Min">Southern Min</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hokkien" title="Hokkien">Hokkien</a> <a href="/wiki/Pe%CC%8Dh-%C5%8De-j%C4%AB" title="Pe̍h-ōe-jī">POJ</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Oa̍t</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_Romanization_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiwanese Romanization System">Tâi-lô</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Ua̍t</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Leizhou_Min" title="Leizhou Min">Leizhou</a> Romanization</th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">O̍et</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Guangdong</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chinese_postal_romanization" title="Chinese postal romanization">previously romanized</a> as <b>Kwangtung</b> or <b>Canton</b>, is a coastal <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_China" title="Provinces of China">province</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_China" title="South China">South China</a>, on the north shore of the <a href="/wiki/South_China_Sea" title="South China Sea">South China Sea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SNA2008_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SNA2008-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The provincial capital is <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a>. With a population of 126.84<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>million (as of 2021)<sup id="cite_ref-data2022_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-data2022-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> across a total area of about 179,800&#160;km<sup>2</sup> (69,400&#160;sq&#160;mi),<sup id="cite_ref-mofcom_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mofcom-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Guangdong is <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_population" title="List of Chinese administrative divisions by population">China's most populous province</a> and its <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_area" title="List of Chinese administrative divisions by area">15th-largest</a> by area, as well as the <a href="/wiki/List_of_first-level_administrative_divisions_by_population" title="List of first-level administrative divisions by population">third-most populous country subdivision in the world</a>. </p><p>Guangdong's economy is the largest of any <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_GDP" title="List of Chinese administrative divisions by GDP">provincial-level division</a> in China, with a GDP of 13.57 trillion <a href="/wiki/Renminbi" title="Renminbi">RMB</a> ($1.9 trillion in GDP nominal) in 2023, contributing approximately 10.6% of mainland China's economic output. It has a diversified economy, and was known as the starting point of ancient China's <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Silk_Road" title="Maritime Silk Road">Maritime Silk Road</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is home to the production facilities and offices of a wide-ranging set of Chinese and foreign corporations. Guangdong has benefited from its proximity to the financial hub of <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>, which it borders to the south. Guangdong also hosts the largest import and export fair in China, the <a href="/wiki/Canton_Fair" title="Canton Fair">Canton Fair</a>, in Guangzhou. The <a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta_Economic_Zone" title="Pearl River Delta Economic Zone">Pearl River Delta Economic Zone</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Megalopolises_in_China" title="Megalopolises in China">Chinese megalopolis</a>, is a core for <a href="/wiki/High_tech" title="High tech">high technology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manufacturing" title="Manufacturing">manufacturing</a> and <a href="/wiki/International_trade" title="International trade">foreign trade</a>. In this zone are two of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_city_tier_system" title="Chinese city tier system">four top Chinese cities</a> and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_prefecture-level_cities_by_GDP" title="List of Chinese prefecture-level cities by GDP">top two Chinese prefecture-level cities by GDP</a>: Guangzhou and <a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_China" title="Special economic zones of China">special economic zone</a> in the country. These two are among China's most populous and important cities, and have become two of the world's most populous <a href="/wiki/Megacity" title="Megacity">megacities</a> and <a href="/wiki/Global_Financial_Centres_Index" title="Global Financial Centres Index">leading financial centres</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Asia-Pacific" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia-Pacific">Asia-Pacific</a> region.<sup id="cite_ref-GFCI_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GFCI-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Guangdong surpassed <a href="/wiki/Henan" title="Henan">Henan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shandong" title="Shandong">Shandong</a> to become China's <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_population" title="List of Chinese administrative divisions by population">most populous province</a> in January 2005, registering 79.1&#160;million permanent residents and 31&#160;million migrants who lived in the province for at least six months of the year;<sup id="cite_ref-English_people.com.cn_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-English_people.com.cn-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chinadaily.com_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chinadaily.com-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the total population was 126,012,510 in the <a href="/wiki/2020_Chinese_census" title="2020 Chinese census">2020 Chinese census</a>, accounting for 8.93&#160;percent of <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">mainland China</a>'s population.<sup id="cite_ref-Census2020_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census2020-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This makes it the most populous first-level administrative subdivision of any country outside <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a>. The vast majority of the historical Guangdong Province is administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC). <a href="/wiki/Pratas_Island" title="Pratas Island">Pratas Island</a> in the <a href="/wiki/South_China_Sea" title="South China Sea">South China Sea</a> is part of <a href="/wiki/Cijin_District" title="Cijin District">Cijin District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaohsiung" title="Kaohsiung">Kaohsiung</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> (ROC); the island was part of Guangdong Province before the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" title="Chinese Civil War">Chinese Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the unification of <a href="/wiki/Lingnan" title="Lingnan">Lingnan</a> region during the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a>, immigrants from the <a href="/wiki/Zhongyuan" title="Zhongyuan">Central Plains</a> moved in and formed a <a href="/wiki/Lingnan_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Lingnan culture">local culture</a> with a unique style. With the outward movement of the <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_people" title="Cantonese people">Guangdong people</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Hakka_Chinese" title="Hakka Chinese">Hakka</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Cantonese</a> <a href="/wiki/Varieties_of_Chinese" title="Varieties of Chinese">languages</a>, <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Guangdong" title="Music of Guangdong">music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_cuisine" title="Cantonese cuisine">cuisine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_opera" title="Cantonese opera">opera</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gongfu_tea_ceremony" class="mw-redirect" title="Gongfu tea ceremony">tea ceremony</a> have spread throughout the nation, <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a>, and other countries. Guangdong was also the birthplace of the father of modern China and the founder of the Republic of China, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen" title="Sun Yat-sen">Sun Yat-sen</a>. He declared a <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_Republic_of_China_in_Guangzhou" title="Government of the Republic of China in Guangzhou">military government</a> there in the <a href="/wiki/Warlord_Era" title="Warlord Era">Warlord Era</a>. The two <a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_regions_of_China" title="Special administrative regions of China">special administrative regions</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a> fall within the scope of Guangdong's cultural influence, and its culture still has profound influences on the <a href="/wiki/Overseas_Chinese" title="Overseas Chinese">Chinese</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Singaporeans" title="Chinese Singaporeans">Singapore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malaysian_Chinese" title="Malaysian Chinese">Malaysia</a>, with the vast majority of the Chinese diaspora in the two countries claiming ancestry from Guangdong. </p><p>Guangdong is also one of the leading provinces in research and education in China. It hosts 160 <a href="/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Guangdong" title="List of universities and colleges in Guangdong">institutions of higher education</a>, ranking first in the <a href="/wiki/South_Central_China" title="South Central China">South Central China</a> region and second among all Chinese provinces/municipalities, after <a href="/wiki/Jiangsu" title="Jiangsu">Jiangsu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 2023, two major cities in the province ranked in the world's top <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_by_scientific_output" title="List of cities by scientific output">20 cities</a> (Guangzhou 8th and Shenzhen 19th) by scientific research output.<sup id="cite_ref-nature.com_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nature.com-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"<i>Guǎng</i>" (<a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">traditional Chinese</a>&#58; <span lang="zh-Hant">廣</span>; <a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">simplified Chinese</a>&#58; <span lang="zh-Hans">广</span>) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The name "<i>Guang</i>" ultimately came from Guangxin (<span lang="zh-Hant"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BB%A3%E4%BF%A1" class="extiw" title="wikt:廣信">廣信</a></span>; <span lang="zh-Hans">广信</span>), an outpost established in <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> near modern <a href="/wiki/Wuzhou" title="Wuzhou">Wuzhou</a>, whose name is a reference to an order by <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han" title="Emperor Wu of Han">Emperor Wu of Han</a> to "widely bestow favors and sow trust". Together, Guangdong and Guangxi are called <i><a href="/wiki/Liangguang" title="Liangguang">Loeng gwong</a></i> (<span lang="zh-Hant">兩廣</span>; <span lang="zh-Hans">两广</span>; <i><span lang="zh-Latn">liǎng guǎng</span></i>) During the Song dynasty, the Two Guangs were formally separated as <i>Guǎngnán Dōnglù</i> (<span lang="zh-Hant">廣南東路</span>; <span lang="zh-Hans">广南东路</span>; &#39;East <a href="/wiki/Circuit_(administrative_division)" title="Circuit (administrative division)">Circuit</a> in Southern Guang&#39;) and <i>Guǎngnán Xīlù</i> (<span lang="zh-Hant">廣南西路</span>; <span lang="zh-Hans">广南西路</span>; &#39;West <a href="/wiki/Circuit_(administrative_division)" title="Circuit (administrative division)">Circuit</a> in Southern Guang&#39;), which became abbreviated as <i>Guǎngdōng Lù</i> (<span lang="zh-Hant">廣東路</span>; <span lang="zh-Hans">广东路</span>) and <i>Guǎngxī Lù</i> (<span lang="zh-Hant">廣西路</span>; <span lang="zh-Hans">广西路</span>). </p><p>"Canton", though etymologically derived from <i><span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">Cantão</i></span></i> (the Portuguese <a href="/wiki/Transliteration" title="Transliteration">transliteration</a> of "Guangdong"), usually by itself refers to the provincial capital <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Historically, Canton was also used for the province itself,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but often either specified as a province (e.g. Canton Province),<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or written as <i>Kwangtung</i> in the <a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a> system and now most commonly as <i>Guangdong</i> in <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The local people of the city of <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> (Canton) and their language are called <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantonese language">Cantonese</a> in English. Because of the prestige of <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Canton</a> and its accent, Cantonese can also be used, in a wider sense, for the phylogenetically related residents and Chinese dialects outside the provincial capital.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kwangtung_Provincial_Government.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kwangtung_Provincial_Government.jpg/220px-Kwangtung_Provincial_Government.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kwangtung_Provincial_Government.jpg/330px-Kwangtung_Provincial_Government.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kwangtung_Provincial_Government.jpg/440px-Kwangtung_Provincial_Government.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="743" /></a><figcaption>Kwangtung Provincial Government of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%9349)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of China (1912–49)">Republic of China</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistory">Prehistory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Prehistory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> era began in the <a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta" title="Pearl River Delta">Pearl River Delta</a> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">珠江三角洲</span></span>) 7,000 years before present (BP), with the early period from around 7000 to 5000 BP (c. 5050–3050 BC), and the late period from about 5000 to 3500 BP (c. 3050–1550 BC). In coastal Guangdong, the Neolithic was likely introduced from the middle Yangtze River area (Jiao 2013). In inland Guangdong, the neolithic appeared in Guangdong 4,600 years before present (BP). The Neolithic in northern inland Guangdong is represented by the Shixia culture (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">石峽文化</span></span>), which occurred from 4600 to 4200 BP (c. 2650–2250 BC).<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Imperial">Imperial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Imperial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Originally inhabited by a mixture of tribal groups known to the Chinese as the <a href="/wiki/Baiyue" title="Baiyue">Baiyue</a> ("Hundred Yue"), the region first became part of China during the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a>. Under the Qin Dynasty, Chinese administration began and along with it reliable historical records in the region. After establishing the first <a href="/wiki/Qin%27s_wars_of_unification" title="Qin&#39;s wars of unification">unified Chinese empire</a>, the Qin expanded southwards and set up <a href="/wiki/Nanhai_Commandery" title="Nanhai Commandery">Nanhai Commandery</a> at <a href="/wiki/Panyu_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Panyu District">Panyu</a>, near what is now part of Guangzhou. The region was an independent kingdom as <a href="/wiki/Nanyue" title="Nanyue">Nanyue</a> between the fall of Qin and the reign of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han" title="Emperor Wu of Han">Emperor Wu of Han</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> administered Guangdong, Guangxi, and northern Vietnam as <a href="/wiki/Jiaozhou_(region)" title="Jiaozhou (region)">Jiaozhi Province</a>; southernmost Jiaozhi Province was used as a gateway for traders from the west—as far away as the Roman Empire. Under the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Wu" title="Eastern Wu">Wu Kingdom</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Three_Kingdoms" title="Three Kingdoms">Three Kingdoms</a> period, Guangdong was made its own province, the Guang Province, in 226 CE.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Canton was a prosperous port city along a tropical frontier region beset by disease and wild animals, but rich in oranges, <a href="/wiki/Banyan" title="Banyan">banyan</a>, bananas, and <a href="/wiki/Lychee" title="Lychee">lychee</a> fruits. They traded slaves, silk and <a href="/wiki/Chinaware" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinaware">chinaware</a> with <a href="/wiki/Persians" title="Persians">Persians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brahmans" class="mw-redirect" title="Brahmans">Brahmans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malays_(ethnic_group)" title="Malays (ethnic group)">Malays</a> in exchange for their renowned medicines and fragrant tropical woods. <a href="/wiki/Shi%27a_Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Shi&#39;a Muslims">Shi'a Muslims</a> who had fled persecution in <a href="/wiki/Greater_Khorasan" title="Greater Khorasan">Khorasan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buddhists" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhists">Buddhists</a> from India lived side by side in the thriving town each erecting their own houses of worship. A foreign quarter sprang up along the <a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_(China)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pearl River (China)">river</a> where many traders of diverse backgrounds including Arabs and <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Singhalese</a> took up residence.<sup id="cite_ref-University_of_California_Press_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-University_of_California_Press-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The port's importance declined after it was raided by Arabs and Persians in 758 and the foreign residents were at times troubled by the corrupt local officials, sometimes responding violently. During one incident in 684, for example, a merchant vessel's captain murdered a corrupt governor who had used his position to steal from the merchant.<sup id="cite_ref-University_of_California_Press_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-University_of_California_Press-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Together with <a href="/wiki/Guangxi" title="Guangxi">Guangxi</a>, Guangdong was made part of <a href="/wiki/Lingnan_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Lingnan culture">Lingnan</a> Circuit (political division Circuit), or Mountain-South Circuit, in 627 during the <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang dynasty</a>. The Guangdong part of Lingnan Circuit was renamed <a href="/wiki/Guangnan_East_Circuit" title="Guangnan East Circuit">Guangnan East Circuit</a> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant">廣南東路</span></span>) in 971 during the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a> (960–1279). "Guangnan East" (<span lang="zh-Hant">廣南東</span>) is the source of the name "Guangdong" (<span lang="zh-Hant">廣東</span>; <span lang="zh-Hans">广东</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 227">&#58;&#8202;227&#8202;</span></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dim_Sum_Breakfast.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Dim_Sum_Breakfast.jpg/220px-Dim_Sum_Breakfast.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Dim_Sum_Breakfast.jpg/330px-Dim_Sum_Breakfast.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Dim_Sum_Breakfast.jpg/440px-Dim_Sum_Breakfast.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Cantonese food</figcaption></figure> <p>As time passed, the demographics of what is now Guangdong gradually shifted to (<a href="/wiki/Han_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Han people">Han</a>)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (February 2020)">when?</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Chinese dominance as the populations intermingled due to commerce along the great canals. From the fall of the Han dynasty onwards, it shifted more abruptly through massive migration from <a href="/wiki/Northern_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern China">the north</a> during periods of political turmoil and nomadic incursions. For example, internal strife in northern China following <a href="/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="An Lushan Rebellion">the rebellion</a> of <a href="/wiki/An_Lushan" title="An Lushan">An Lushan</a> resulted in a 75% increase in the population of Guangzhou prefecture between the 740s–750s and 800s–810s.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As more migrants arrived, the local population was gradually <a href="/wiki/Sinicization" title="Sinicization">assimilated to Han Chinese culture</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or displaced. </p><p>As <a href="/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_the_Song_dynasty" title="Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty">Mongols</a> from the north engaged in their <a href="/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_China" title="Mongol conquest of China">conquest of China</a> in the 13th century, the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Song" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Song">Southern Song</a> court fled southwards from its capital in <a href="/wiki/Hangzhou" title="Hangzhou">Hangzhou</a>. The defeat of the Southern Song court by Mongol naval forces in The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Yamen" title="Battle of Yamen">Battle of Yamen</a> 1279 in Guangdong marked the end of the Southern Song dynasty (960–1279).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Mongol <a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty" title="Yuan dynasty">Yuan dynasty</a>, large parts of current Guangdong belonged to <a href="/wiki/Jiangxi" title="Jiangxi">Jiangxi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its present name, "Guangdong Province" was given in early <a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming dynasty</a>. </p><p>Since the 16th century, Guangdong has had extensive trade links with the rest of the world. European merchants coming northwards via the <a href="/wiki/Straits_of_Malacca" class="mw-redirect" title="Straits of Malacca">Straits of Malacca</a> and the <a href="/wiki/South_China_Sea" title="South China Sea">South China Sea</a>, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_people" title="Portuguese people">Portuguese</a> and British, traded extensively through Guangzhou. <a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a>, on the southern coast of Guangdong, was the first European settlement in 1557.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>In the 19th century, the <a href="/wiki/Opium_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Opium trade">opium traded</a> through Guangzhou triggered the <a href="/wiki/First_Opium_War" title="First Opium War">First Opium War</a>, opening an era of Western imperialists' incursion and intervention in China. In addition to <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Macau" title="Portuguese Macau">Macau</a>, which was then a <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Empire" title="Portuguese Empire">Portuguese colony</a>, Hong Kong was ceded to the British, and <a href="/wiki/Leased_Territory_of_Guangzhouwan" title="Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan">Kouang-Tchéou-Wan</a> (modern day area of <a href="/wiki/Zhanjiang" title="Zhanjiang">Zhanjiang</a>) to the <a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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In particular, the <a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Cantonese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hakka" class="mw-redirect" title="Hakka">Hakka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Teochew_dialect" class="mw-redirect" title="Teochew dialect">Teochew</a> dialects have proportionately more speakers among overseas Chinese people than Mandarin-speaking Chinese. Additionally, many Taishanese-speaking Chinese <a href="/wiki/Chinese_emigration" title="Chinese emigration">emigrated</a> to Western countries, with the results that many Western versions of Chinese words were derived from the Cantonese dialects rather than through the mainstream Mandarin language, such as "<a href="/wiki/Dim_sum" title="Dim sum">dim sum</a>". Some Mandarin Chinese words originally of foreign origin also came from the original foreign language by way of Cantonese. For example, the Mandarin word <i><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">níngméng</i></span></i> (<a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">simplified Chinese</a>&#58; <span lang="zh-Hans">柠檬</span>; <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">traditional Chinese</a>&#58; <span lang="zh-Hant">檸檬</span>), meaning "Lemon", came from Cantonese, in which the characters are pronounced as <i><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">lìng mung</i></span></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the United States, there is a large number of Chinese who are descendants of immigrants from the <a href="/wiki/County-level_city" title="County-level city">county-level city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Taishan,_Guangdong" title="Taishan, Guangdong">Taishan</a> (Toisan in Cantonese), who speak a distinctive dialect related to Cantonese called <a href="/wiki/Taishanese" title="Taishanese">Taishanese</a> (or Toishanese). </p><p>During the 1850s, the <a href="/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom" title="Taiping Heavenly Kingdom">Taiping Heavenly Kingdom</a>, whose leader <a href="/wiki/Hong_Xiuquan" title="Hong Xiuquan">Hong Xiuquan</a> was born in Guangdong and received a pamphlet from a Protestant Christian missionary in Guangdong, was allied with a local Guangdong <a href="/wiki/Red_Turban_Rebellion_(1854%E2%80%931856)" title="Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)">Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)</a>. Because of direct contact with the West, Guangdong was the centre of anti-Manchu and anti-imperialist activity. The generally acknowledged founder of modern China, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen" title="Sun Yat-sen">Sun Yat-sen</a>, was also from Guangdong. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the early 1920s of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949)" title="Republic of China (1912–1949)">Republic of China</a>, Guangdong was the staging area for the <a href="/wiki/Kuomintang" title="Kuomintang">Kuomintang</a> (KMT) to prepare for the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Expedition_(1926%E2%80%931927)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Expedition (1926–1927)">Northern Expedition</a>, an effort to bring the various <a href="/wiki/Warlord_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Warlord era">warlords</a> of China back under a unified central government. The <a href="/wiki/Whampoa_Military_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Whampoa Military Academy">Whampoa Military Academy</a> was built near Guangzhou to train military commanders. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E5%8F%B0%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%B2%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E6%B9%BE_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E5%8F%B0%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%B2%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E6%B9%BE_-_panoramio.jpg/410px-%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E5%8F%B0%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%B2%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E6%B9%BE_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="410" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E5%8F%B0%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%B2%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E6%B9%BE_-_panoramio.jpg/615px-%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E5%8F%B0%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%B2%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E6%B9%BE_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E5%8F%B0%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%B2%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E6%B9%BE_-_panoramio.jpg/820px-%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E5%8F%B0%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%B2%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E6%B9%BE_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4982" data-file-height="1833" /></a><figcaption>Taishan Xiachuan Island, Guangdong</figcaption></figure> <p>At the end of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" title="Chinese Civil War">Chinese Civil War</a> Guangdong became one of the <a href="/wiki/Nationalist_government" title="Nationalist government">Nationalist government</a>'s final footholds in <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">Mainland China</a>, with Guangzhou temporarily serving as the <a href="/wiki/Kuomintang" title="Kuomintang">Kuomintang</a>'s provisional capitol. The <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="People&#39;s Liberation Army">People's Liberation Army</a> seized control of the province after the <a href="/wiki/Retreat_of_the_government_of_the_Republic_of_China_to_Taiwan" title="Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan">retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The new <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a> administration issued harsh taxes, requisitioning between 22 and 60 percent of grain annually. However, the local party boss Fang Fang tried to moderate <a href="/wiki/Land_Reform_Movement_(China)" class="mw-redirect" title="Land Reform Movement (China)">Chinese land reform policy</a> in order to protect successful businesses in the <a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta" title="Pearl River Delta">Pearl River Delta</a>, landholdings by <a href="/wiki/Overseas_Chinese" title="Overseas Chinese">overseas Chinese</a> seeking to eventually return to the country, and commercial relations with <a href="/wiki/British_Hong_Kong" title="British Hong Kong">British Hong Kong</a>. In response <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a> purged Fang and thousands of cadres from the province in 1952, sending <a href="/wiki/Tao_Zhu" title="Tao Zhu">Tao Zhu</a> to implement a much harsher program under the slogan "Every Village Bleeds, Every Household Fights."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDikötter201376-81_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDikötter201376-81-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/Reform_and_opening_up" class="mw-redirect" title="Reform and opening up">Reform and Opening Up</a>, Guangdong was supported by the central government to be "one step ahead" of the rest of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-:53_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:53-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 43">&#58;&#8202;43&#8202;</span></sup> Most major cities in Guangdong underwent liberalizing economic reforms in the mid-1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-:53_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:53-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 43">&#58;&#8202;43&#8202;</span></sup> Since Reform and Opening Up, the province has seen extremely rapid economic growth, aided in part by its close trading links with <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>, which borders it. It is now the province with the highest gross domestic product in China. </p><p>In 1952, a small section of Guangdong's coastline (<a href="/wiki/Qinzhou" title="Qinzhou">Qinzhou</a>, Lianzhou (now <a href="/wiki/Hepu_County" title="Hepu County">Hepu County</a>), <a href="/wiki/Fangchenggang" title="Fangchenggang">Fangchenggang</a> and <a href="/wiki/Beihai" title="Beihai">Beihai</a>) was given to Guangxi, giving it access to the sea. This was reversed in 1955, and then restored in 1965. <a href="/wiki/Hainan" title="Hainan">Hainan</a> Island was originally part of Guangdong, but it was separated into its own province in 1988. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%9C%80%E7%BE%8E%E4%B9%A1%E6%9D%91%E2%80%94%E7%BA%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%9D%91_-_panoramio_(32).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%9C%80%E7%BE%8E%E4%B9%A1%E6%9D%91%E2%80%94%E7%BA%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%9D%91_-_panoramio_%2832%29.jpg/220px-%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%9C%80%E7%BE%8E%E4%B9%A1%E6%9D%91%E2%80%94%E7%BA%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%9D%91_-_panoramio_%2832%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%9C%80%E7%BE%8E%E4%B9%A1%E6%9D%91%E2%80%94%E7%BA%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%9D%91_-_panoramio_%2832%29.jpg/330px-%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%9C%80%E7%BE%8E%E4%B9%A1%E6%9D%91%E2%80%94%E7%BA%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%9D%91_-_panoramio_%2832%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%9C%80%E7%BE%8E%E4%B9%A1%E6%9D%91%E2%80%94%E7%BA%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%9D%91_-_panoramio_%2832%29.jpg/440px-%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%9C%80%E7%BE%8E%E4%B9%A1%E6%9D%91%E2%80%94%E7%BA%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%9D%91_-_panoramio_%2832%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="536" /></a><figcaption>A horse in Hongshan village</figcaption></figure><p> Guangdong faces the <a href="/wiki/South_China_Sea" title="South China Sea">South China Sea</a> to the south and has a total of 4,300&#160;km (2,700&#160;mi) of coastline. The <a href="/wiki/Leizhou_Peninsula" title="Leizhou Peninsula">Leizhou Peninsula</a> is on the southwestern end of the province. There are a few inactive <a href="/wiki/Volcanoes" class="mw-redirect" title="Volcanoes">volcanoes</a> on Leizhou Peninsula. The <a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta" title="Pearl River Delta">Pearl River Delta</a> is the convergent point of three upstream rivers: the <a href="/wiki/Dong_Jiang" class="mw-redirect" title="Dong Jiang">East River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bei_Jiang" class="mw-redirect" title="Bei Jiang">North River</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Xi_Jiang" class="mw-redirect" title="Xi Jiang">West River</a>. The <a href="/wiki/River_delta" title="River delta">river delta</a> is filled with hundreds of small islands. The province is geographically separated from the north by a few <a href="/wiki/Mountain_range" title="Mountain range">mountain ranges</a> collectively called the <a href="/wiki/Nan_Mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Nan Mountains">Nan Mountains</a> (Nan Ling). The highest peak in the province is <a href="/wiki/Shikengkong" title="Shikengkong">Shikengkong</a> with an elevation of 6,240 feet (1,900 meters) above sea level.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E8%99%8E%E9%97%A8%E5%A4%A7%E6%A1%A5.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/%E8%99%8E%E9%97%A8%E5%A4%A7%E6%A1%A5.JPG/220px-%E8%99%8E%E9%97%A8%E5%A4%A7%E6%A1%A5.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/%E8%99%8E%E9%97%A8%E5%A4%A7%E6%A1%A5.JPG/330px-%E8%99%8E%E9%97%A8%E5%A4%A7%E6%A1%A5.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/%E8%99%8E%E9%97%A8%E5%A4%A7%E6%A1%A5.JPG/440px-%E8%99%8E%E9%97%A8%E5%A4%A7%E6%A1%A5.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_(China)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pearl River (China)">Pearl River</a> and <a href="/wiki/Humen_Pearl_River_Bridge" title="Humen Pearl River Bridge">Humen Bridge</a></div></figcaption></figure> <p>Guangdong borders <a href="/wiki/Fujian" title="Fujian">Fujian</a> to the northeast, <a href="/wiki/Jiangxi" title="Jiangxi">Jiangxi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hunan" title="Hunan">Hunan</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Guangxi" title="Guangxi">Guangxi</a> autonomous region to the west, and <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a> <a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_region_(People%27s_Republic_of_China)" class="mw-redirect" title="Special administrative region (People&#39;s Republic of China)">Special Administrative Regions</a> to the south. <a href="/wiki/Hainan" title="Hainan">Hainan</a> is offshore across from the <a href="/wiki/Leizhou_Peninsula" title="Leizhou Peninsula">Leizhou Peninsula</a>. <a href="/wiki/Pratas_Island" title="Pratas Island">Pratas Island</a>, which were traditionally governed as part of Guangdong, are part of <a href="/wiki/Cijin_District" title="Cijin District">Cijin District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaoshiung" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaoshiung">Kaoshiung</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> (ROC).<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The PRC continues to claim Pratas Island as part of Guangdong under the district of <a href="/wiki/Chengqu,_Shanwei" title="Chengqu, Shanwei">Chengqu, Shanwei</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sws_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sws-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-chengqu_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chengqu-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cities around the <a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta" title="Pearl River Delta">Pearl River Delta</a> include <a href="/wiki/Dongguan" title="Dongguan">Dongguan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Foshan" title="Foshan">Foshan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Huizhou" title="Huizhou">Huizhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jiangmen" title="Jiangmen">Jiangmen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shunde" class="mw-redirect" title="Shunde">Shunde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taishan,_Guangdong" title="Taishan, Guangdong">Taishan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhongshan" title="Zhongshan">Zhongshan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zhuhai" title="Zhuhai">Zhuhai</a>. Other cities in the province include <a href="/wiki/Chaozhou" title="Chaozhou">Chaozhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chenghai" class="mw-redirect" title="Chenghai">Chenghai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nanhai_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanhai District">Nanhai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shantou" title="Shantou">Shantou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shaoguan" title="Shaoguan">Shaoguan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhanjiang" title="Zhanjiang">Zhanjiang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhaoqing" title="Zhaoqing">Zhaoqing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yangjiang" title="Yangjiang">Yangjiang</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yunfu" title="Yunfu">Yunfu</a>. </p><p>Guangdong has a <a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">humid subtropical climate</a> (<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen</a> <i>Cfa</i> inland, <i>Cwa</i> along the coast). Winters are short, mild, and relatively dry, while summers are long, hot, and very wet. Average daily highs in Guangzhou in January and July are 18 and 33&#160;°C (64 and 91&#160;°F), although the humidity makes it feel hotter in summer. Frost is rare on the coast but may happen a few days each winter. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Guangdong" title="Economy of Guangdong">Economy of Guangdong</a></div> <p>In 2022, Guangdong's GDP was 13.57 trillion <a href="/wiki/Renminbi" title="Renminbi">RMB</a> ($1.9 trillion in GDP nominal, $3.78 trillion in <a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>), with a per capita GDP of CN¥102,465 (<span style="white-space: nowrap">US$15,234</span> in nominal or US$25,016 in <a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-data2022_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-data2022-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_GDP_per_capita" title="List of Chinese administrative divisions by GDP per capita">richest province</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_Central_China" title="South Central China">South Central China</a> region and the seventh richest among all provinces by GDP per capita. Guangdong has been the largest province by GDP since 1989 in <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">Mainland China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its GDP exceeded that of Australia ($1.70 trillion) and South Korea ($1.67 trillion), the world's 12th and 13th <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">largest economy</a>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-IMF_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMF-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> If it was a country, Guangdong would be the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">12th-largest economy</a> as of 2022 and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population" title="List of countries and dependencies by population">11th most populous</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-data2022_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-data2022-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Compared to country subdivisions in dollar terms, Guangdong's GDP in nominal is larger than all but four <a href="/wiki/List_of_country_subdivisions_by_GDP_over_200_billion_US_dollars" class="mw-redirect" title="List of country subdivisions by GDP over 200 billion US dollars">country subdivisions</a>: <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_State" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State">New York State</a>, and <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. Compared to country subdivisions in PPP terms, Guangdong's GDP is larger than all, except California.<sup id="cite_ref-IMF_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMF-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By PPP terms, as of 2022, Guangdong's economy ranked between Turkey and Italy with a GDP of $3.35 trillion and US$3.06 trillion respectively, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">11th and 12th largest in the world</a> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-IMF_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMF-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E5%8D%8E%E5%BC%BA%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/%E5%8D%8E%E5%BC%BA%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_2.jpg/170px-%E5%8D%8E%E5%BC%BA%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/%E5%8D%8E%E5%BC%BA%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_2.jpg/255px-%E5%8D%8E%E5%BC%BA%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/%E5%8D%8E%E5%BC%BA%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_2.jpg/340px-%E5%8D%8E%E5%BC%BA%E7%94%B5%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3120" data-file-height="4160" /></a><figcaption>Shops in one of the electronic markets of <a href="/wiki/Huaqiangbei" title="Huaqiangbei">Huaqiangbei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a>, specialize in selling various electronic components, supplying the needs of local and global consumer electronics manufacturers.</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center" colspan="10"><b>Historical GDP of Guangdong Province for 1978 –present</b> (SNA2008)<sup id="cite_ref-SNA2008_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SNA2008-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><br />(purchasing power parity of Chinese Yuan, as <a href="/wiki/Geary%E2%80%93Khamis_dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="Geary–Khamis dollar">Int'l.dollar</a> based on IMF WEO October 2017<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td align="center" rowspan="3">year </td> <td align="center" colspan="4"><b>GDP</b> </td> <td align="center" colspan="3"><b>GDP per capita (GDPpc)<br /></b> <i>based on mid-year population </i> </td> <td align="center" colspan="2"><b>Reference index</b> </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td align="center" colspan="3">GDP <i>in millions</i> </td> <td align="center" rowspan="2">real<br />growth<br />(%) </td> <td align="center" colspan="3">GDPpc </td> <td align="center" colspan="2">exchange rate<br /><i>1 foreign currency<br /> to CNY </i> </td></tr> <tr align="center"> <td><a href="/wiki/Renminbi" title="Renminbi">CNY</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">USD</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Geary%E2%80%93Khamis_dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="Geary–Khamis dollar">Int'l$.</a>) </td> <td>CNY </td> <td>USD </td> <td>PPP<br />(Int'l$.) </td> <td>USD 1 </td> <td>Int'l$. 1<br />(PPP) </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2016</td> <td>8,085,491</td> <td>1,217,273</td> <td>2,306,121</td> <td>7.5</td> <td>74,016</td> <td>11,143</td> <td>21,111</td> <td>6.6423</td> <td>3.5061 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2015</td> <td>7,402,743</td> <td>1,188,546</td> <td>2,085,809</td> <td>8.0</td> <td>68,629</td> <td>11,019</td> <td>19,337</td> <td>6.2284</td> <td>3.5491 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2014</td> <td>6,890,143</td> <td>1,121,662</td> <td>1,940,721</td> <td>7.8</td> <td>64,491</td> <td>10,499</td> <td>18,165</td> <td>6.1428</td> <td>3.5503 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2013</td> <td>6,345,544</td> <td>1,024,599</td> <td>1,774,034</td> <td>8.5</td> <td>59,756</td> <td>9,649</td> <td>16,706</td> <td>6.1932</td> <td>3.5769 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2012</td> <td>5,799,354</td> <td>918,710</td> <td>1,633,253</td> <td>8.2</td> <td>54,973</td> <td>8,709</td> <td>15,482</td> <td>6.3125</td> <td>3.5508 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2011</td> <td>5,395,920</td> <td>835,437</td> <td>1,539,273</td> <td>10.0</td> <td>51,523</td> <td>7,977</td> <td>14,698</td> <td>6.4588</td> <td>3.5055 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2010</td> <td>4,657,712</td> <td>688,044</td> <td>1,406,909</td> <td>12.4</td> <td>45,284</td> <td>6,689</td> <td>13,678</td> <td>6.7695</td> <td>3.3106 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2005</td> <td>2,272,329</td> <td>277,394</td> <td>794,799</td> <td>14.1</td> <td>24,828</td> <td>3,031</td> <td>8,684</td> <td>8.1917</td> <td>2.8590 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>2000</td> <td>1,081,021</td> <td>130,583</td> <td>397,536</td> <td>11.5</td> <td>12,818</td> <td>1,548</td> <td>4,714</td> <td>8.2784</td> <td>2.7193 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>1990</td> <td>155,903</td> <td>32,594</td> <td>91,568</td> <td>11.6</td> <td>2,484</td> <td>519</td> <td>1,459</td> <td>4.7832</td> <td>1.7026 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>1980</td> <td>24,965</td> <td>16,661</td> <td>16,693</td> <td>16.6</td> <td>481</td> <td>321</td> <td>322</td> <td>1.4984</td> <td>1.4955 </td></tr> <tr align="right"> <td>1978</td> <td>18,585</td> <td>11,039</td> <td></td> <td>1.0</td> <td>370</td> <td>220</td> <td></td> <td>1.6836</td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Revolution_(1949)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Revolution (1949)">communist revolution</a> and until the start of the <a href="/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a> reforms in 1978, Guangdong was an economic backwater, although a large underground, service-based economy has always existed. Economic development policies encouraged industrial development in the interior provinces which were weakly joined to <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Guangdong" title="Transport in Guangdong">Guangdong via transportation links</a>. The government policy of economic <a href="/wiki/Autarky" title="Autarky">autarky</a> made Guangdong's access to the ocean irrelevant.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Deng Xiaoping's open door policy radically changed the economy of the province as it was able to take advantage of its access to the ocean, proximity to Hong Kong, and historical links to <a href="/wiki/Overseas_Chinese" title="Overseas Chinese">overseas Chinese</a>. Guangdong was one of the first provinces to receive permission from the central government to receive foreign investment.<sup id="cite_ref-:26_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:26-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 148">&#58;&#8202;148&#8202;</span></sup> In addition, until the 1990s when the <a href="/wiki/Tax_system_in_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax system in China">Chinese taxation system</a> was reformed, the province benefited from the relatively low rate of taxation placed on it by the central government due to its post-Liberation status of being economically backward.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shenzhen_city_montage.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Shenzhen_city_montage.png/380px-Shenzhen_city_montage.png" decoding="async" width="380" height="507" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Shenzhen_city_montage.png/571px-Shenzhen_city_montage.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Shenzhen_city_montage.png/760px-Shenzhen_city_montage.png 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="2800" /></a><figcaption>Shenzhen famous building and tourist attractions</figcaption></figure> <p>Guangdong's economic boom began with the early 1990s and has since spread to neighboring provinces, and also pulled their populations inward. The economic growth of Guangdong province owes much to the low-value-added manufacturing which characterized (and in many ways still defines) the province's economy following <a href="/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a>'s reforms. Guangdong is not only China's largest exporter of goods, it is the country's largest importer as well.<sup id="cite_ref-thechinaperspective1_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thechinaperspective1-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The province is now one of the richest in the nation, with the most billionaires in mainland China,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the highest GDP among all the provinces, although wage growth has only recently begun to rise due to a large influx of migrant workers from neighboring provinces. By 2015, the local government of Guangdong hopes that the service industry will account for more than 50&#160;percent of the provinces GDP and high-tech manufacturing another 20&#160;percent.<sup id="cite_ref-thechinaperspective1_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thechinaperspective1-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, Guangdong's primary, secondary, and tertiary industries were worth 534 billion RMB (US$79.4 billion), 5.28 trillion RMB (US$785.6 billion), and 7.09 trillion RMB (US$1.05 trillion), respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-data2022_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-data2022-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Guangdong contributes approximately 10.6% of the total national economic output.<sup id="cite_ref-data2022_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-data2022-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Now, it has three of the six <a href="/wiki/Special_Economic_Zones_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Economic Zones of the People&#39;s Republic of China">Special Economic Zones</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shantou" title="Shantou">Shantou</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zhuhai" title="Zhuhai">Zhuhai</a>. The affluence of Guangdong, however, remains very concentrated near the <a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta" title="Pearl River Delta">Pearl River Delta</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_and_technological_development_zones">Economic and technological development zones</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Economic and technological development zones"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> Export Processing Zone</li> <li>Shenzhen <a href="/wiki/Futian" class="mw-redirect" title="Futian">Futian</a> Free Trade Zone<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>Shenzhen Hi-Tech Industrial Park</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yantian" class="mw-redirect" title="Yantian">Yantian</a> Port Free Trade Zone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foshan" title="Foshan">Foshan</a> National New &amp; Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> Development District</li> <li>Guangzhou Export Processing Zone</li> <li>Guangzhou Free Trade Zone</li> <li>Guangzhou Nansha Economic and Technical Development Zone</li> <li>Guangzhou Nanhu Lake Tourist Holiday Resort (Chinese Version)</li> <li>Guangzhou New &amp; Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huizhou" title="Huizhou">Huizhou</a> Dayawan Economic and Technological Development Zone</li> <li>Huizhou Export Processing Zone</li> <li>Huizhou Zhongkai Hi-Tech Development Zone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nansha_Subdistrict" title="Nansha Subdistrict">Nansha</a> Free Trade Zone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shantou" title="Shantou">Shantou</a> Free Trade Zone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shatoujiao" class="mw-redirect" title="Shatoujiao">Shatoujiao</a> Free Trade Zone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhanjiang" title="Zhanjiang">Zhanjiang</a> Economic and Technological Development Zone (Chinese Version)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhuhai" title="Zhuhai">Zhuhai</a> National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone</li> <li>Zhuhai Free Trade Zone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhongshan" title="Zhongshan">Zhongshan</a> Torch High-tech Industrial Development Zone</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:15em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Historical population</caption><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1912<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">28,011,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1928<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">32,428,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+15.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1936–37<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">32,453,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1947<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">27,210,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−16.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1954<sup id="cite_ref-census1954_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census1954-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">34,770,059</td><td 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style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2020<sup id="cite_ref-stats.gov.cn_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stats.gov.cn-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">126,012,510</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+20.8%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">Hainan Province part of Guangdong Province until 1988.<br />Guangzhou part of Guangdong Province until 1947; dissolved in 1954 and incorporated into Guangdong Province.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Guangdong officially became the <a href="/wiki/List_of_People%27s_Republic_of_China_administrative_divisions_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of People&#39;s Republic of China administrative divisions by population">most populous province</a> in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-English_people.com.cn_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-English_people.com.cn-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chinadaily.com_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chinadaily.com-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Official statistics had traditionally placed Guangdong as the fourth-most populous province of China with about 80&#160;million people, though an influx of migrants, temporary workers, and newly settled individuals numbered around 30&#160;million.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The massive influx of migrants from other provinces, dubbed the "floating population", is due to Guangdong's booming economy and high demand for labor. If Guangdong were an independent nation, it would rank among the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population" title="List of countries and dependencies by population">twelfth largest countries of the world by population</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Urbanization">Urbanization</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Urbanization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guangzhou_skyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Guangzhou_skyline.jpg/220px-Guangzhou_skyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Guangzhou_skyline.jpg/330px-Guangzhou_skyline.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Guangzhou_skyline.jpg/440px-Guangzhou_skyline.jpg 2x" data-file-width="989" data-file-height="682" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> is the third largest city in the People's Republic of China.</div></figcaption></figure> <p>In 2021, Guangdong's population is 74.6% urban and 25.4% rural.<sup id="cite_ref-data2022_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-data2022-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Genealogy">Genealogy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Genealogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Guangdong is the ancestral home of large numbers of <a href="/wiki/Overseas_Chinese" title="Overseas Chinese">overseas Chinese</a>. Most of the railroad laborers in <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Western_United_States" title="Western United States">Western United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a> in the 19th century came from Guangdong, especially the <a href="/wiki/Siyi" title="Siyi">Siyi</a> area. 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Wong_Tai_Sin_Temple_Canton.jpg/225px-Wong_Tai_Sin_Temple_Canton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Wong_Tai_Sin_Temple_Canton.jpg/300px-Wong_Tai_Sin_Temple_Canton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3328" data-file-height="1872" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Temple of <a href="/wiki/Huang_Daxian" class="mw-redirect" title="Huang Daxian">Huang Daxian</a> in <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Guangzhou_Nanhaishen_Miao_2013.10.01_10-31-35.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Guangzhou_Nanhaishen_Miao_2013.10.01_10-31-35.jpg/150px-Guangzhou_Nanhaishen_Miao_2013.10.01_10-31-35.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="100" class="mw-file-element" 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article: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Guangdong" title="Politics of Guangdong">Politics of Guangdong</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a more comprehensive list, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_provincial_leaders_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="List of provincial leaders of the People&#39;s Republic of China">List of provincial leaders of the People's Republic of China</a>.</div> <p>Guangdong is governed by a one-party system like the rest of China. The <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Guangdong" title="Governor of Guangdong">Governor</a> is in charge of provincial affairs; however, the Communist Party Secretary, often from outside of Guangdong, keeps the Governor in check. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dissent">Dissent</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Dissent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Freedom_House" title="Freedom House">Freedom House</a>'s China Dissent Monitor, Guangdong accounted for 17% of dissent events in the first quarter of 2024 – over 100 events despite heavy <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_China" title="Censorship in China">Censorship in China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2024, Freedom House rated China as below zero on political rights (−2 out of 40).<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relations_with_Hong_Kong_and_Macau">Relations with Hong Kong and Macau</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Relations with Hong Kong and Macau"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a>, while historically parts of Guangdong before becoming colonies of the United Kingdom and Portugal, respectively, are <a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_region_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Special administrative region of the People&#39;s Republic of China">special administrative regions</a> (SARs). Furthermore, the <a href="/wiki/Basic_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Basic Law">Basic Laws</a> of both SARs explicitly forbid <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_China" title="Provinces of China">provincial governments</a> from intervening in local politics. As a result, many issues with Hong Kong and Macau, such as border policy and water rights, have been settled by negotiations between the SARs' governments and the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Guangdong" title="Government of Guangdong">Guangdong provincial government</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Guangdong and the greater Guangzhou area are served by several <a href="/wiki/Radio_Guangdong" title="Radio Guangdong">Radio Guangdong</a> stations, <a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Television" title="Guangdong Television">Guangdong Television</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Television_Guangdong" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Television Guangdong">Southern Television Guangdong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shenzhen_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Shenzhen Television">Shenzhen Television</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangzhou Television">Guangzhou Television</a>. There is an English programme produced by <a href="/wiki/Radio_Guangdong" title="Radio Guangdong">Radio Guangdong</a> which broadcasts information about this region to the entire world through the <a href="/wiki/WRN_Broadcast" title="WRN Broadcast">WRN Broadcast</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Lingnan_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Lingnan culture">Lingnan culture</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_cuisine" title="Cantonese cuisine">Cantonese cuisine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Guangdong" title="Music of Guangdong">Music of Guangdong</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Guangdong" title="Special:EditPage/Guangdong">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2014</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:3_pieces_of_har_gow_at_Plum_Blossom_Room_20230125.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/3_pieces_of_har_gow_at_Plum_Blossom_Room_20230125.jpg/220px-3_pieces_of_har_gow_at_Plum_Blossom_Room_20230125.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/3_pieces_of_har_gow_at_Plum_Blossom_Room_20230125.jpg/330px-3_pieces_of_har_gow_at_Plum_Blossom_Room_20230125.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/3_pieces_of_har_gow_at_Plum_Blossom_Room_20230125.jpg/440px-3_pieces_of_har_gow_at_Plum_Blossom_Room_20230125.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2800" data-file-height="2100" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Har_gow" title="Har gow">har gow</a> are classical Cantonese dumplings served as dim sum.</figcaption></figure> <p>The central region, which is also the political and economic center, is populated predominantly by <a href="/wiki/Yue_Chinese" title="Yue Chinese">Yue Chinese</a> speakers, though the influx in the last three decades of millions of <a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin</a>-speaking immigrants has slightly diminished Cantonese linguistic dominance. This region is associated with <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_cuisine" title="Cantonese cuisine">Cantonese cuisine</a>. <a href="/wiki/Dim_sum" title="Dim sum">Dim Sum</a> is one famous example of Cantonese cuisine, dividing Cantonese food into small portions and served with small dishes. <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_opera" title="Cantonese opera">Cantonese opera</a> is a form of <a href="/wiki/Chinese_opera" title="Chinese opera">Chinese opera</a> popular in Cantonese speaking areas. Related Yue dialects are spoken in most of the western half of the province. </p><p>The area comprising the cities of <a href="/wiki/Chaozhou" title="Chaozhou">Chaozhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shantou" title="Shantou">Shantou</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jieyang" title="Jieyang">Jieyang</a> in coastal east Guangdong, known as <a href="/wiki/Chaoshan" title="Chaoshan">Chaoshan</a>, forms its own cultural sphere. The <a href="/wiki/Teochew_people" title="Teochew people">Teochew people</a> here, along with <a href="/wiki/Hailufeng_dialect" class="mw-redirect" title="Hailufeng dialect">Hailufeng Min</a> people in <a href="/wiki/Shanwei" title="Shanwei">Shanwei</a>, speak <a href="/wiki/Hokkien" title="Hokkien">Hokkien</a>, which is a <a href="/wiki/Min_Chinese" title="Min Chinese">Min</a> dialect closely related to mainstream <a href="/wiki/Hokkien" title="Hokkien">Southern Min</a> (Hokkien) and their cuisine is <a href="/wiki/Chiuchow_cuisine" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiuchow cuisine">Teochew cuisine</a>. <a href="/wiki/Teochew_opera" title="Teochew opera">Teochew opera</a> is also well-known and has a unique form. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Hakka_people" title="Hakka people">Hakka people</a> live in large areas of Guangdong, including <a href="/wiki/Huizhou" title="Huizhou">Huizhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meizhou" title="Meizhou">Meizhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heyuan" title="Heyuan">Heyuan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shaoguan" title="Shaoguan">Shaoguan</a> and other areas. Much of the Eastern part of Guangdong is populated by the Hakka people except for the Chaozhou and Hailufeng area. Hakka culture include <a href="/wiki/Hakka_cuisine" title="Hakka cuisine">Hakka cuisine</a>, Han opera (<a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">simplified Chinese</a>&#58; <span lang="zh-Hans">汉剧</span>; <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">traditional Chinese</a>&#58; <span lang="zh-Hant">漢劇</span>), Hakka <i>Hanyue</i> and <i>sixian</i> (traditional instrumental music) and Hakka folk songs (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">客家山歌</span></span>). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Puning,_Jieyang,_Guangdong,_China_-_panoramio_(123).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Puning%2C_Jieyang%2C_Guangdong%2C_China_-_panoramio_%28123%29.jpg/220px-Puning%2C_Jieyang%2C_Guangdong%2C_China_-_panoramio_%28123%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Puning%2C_Jieyang%2C_Guangdong%2C_China_-_panoramio_%28123%29.jpg/330px-Puning%2C_Jieyang%2C_Guangdong%2C_China_-_panoramio_%28123%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Puning%2C_Jieyang%2C_Guangdong%2C_China_-_panoramio_%28123%29.jpg/440px-Puning%2C_Jieyang%2C_Guangdong%2C_China_-_panoramio_%28123%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Jieyang architecture</figcaption></figure> <p>The outcast <a href="/wiki/Tanka_people" title="Tanka people">Tanka people</a> traditionally live on boats throughout the coasts and rivers of Guangdong and much of Southern China. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Zhanjiang" title="Zhanjiang">Zhanjiang</a> in southern Guangdong is dominated by the <a href="/wiki/Leizhou_Min" title="Leizhou Min">Leizhou dialect</a>, a variety of <a href="/wiki/Min_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Min language">Minnan</a>; Cantonese and Hakka are also spoken there. </p><p>Mandarin is the language used in education and government and in areas where there are migrants from other provinces, above all in Shenzhen. Cantonese maintains a strong and dominant position in common usage and media, even in eastern areas of the province where the local languages and dialects are non-Yue ones. </p><p>Guangdong Province is notable for being the birthplace of many famous <a href="/wiki/Xiangqi" title="Xiangqi">Xiangqi</a> (Chinese chess) grandmasters such as <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BC_Qin" title="Lü Qin">Lü Qin</a>, Yang Guanli, Cai Furu and <a href="/wiki/Xu_Yinchuan" title="Xu Yinchuan">Xu Yinchuan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_research">Education and research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Education and research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of 2022, Guangdong hosts 160 institutions of higher education, ranking first in <a href="/wiki/South_Central_China" title="South Central China">South Central China</a> region and 2nd among all Chinese provinces/municipalities after <a href="/wiki/Jiangsu" title="Jiangsu">Jiangsu</a> (168).<sup id="cite_ref-:02_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Guangdong is also the seat of 14 adult higher education institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many universities and colleges are located in major cities like Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, hosts 83 institutions of higher education (excluding adult colleges), ranking 1st in <a href="/wiki/South_China" title="South China">South China</a> region and 2nd (tie) nationwide after <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Province_Department_of_Education" title="Guangdong Province Department of Education">Guangdong Province Department of Education</a> is the department of the provincial government that oversees education. </p><p>As of 2023, two major cities in the province ranked in the top <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_by_scientific_output" title="List of cities by scientific output">20 cities</a> in the world (Guangzhou 8th and Shenzhen 19th) by scientific research output, as tracked by the <a href="/wiki/Nature_Index" title="Nature Index">Nature Index</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nature.com_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nature.com-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colleges_and_universities">Colleges and universities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Colleges and universities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a more comprehensive list, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Guangdong" title="List of universities and colleges in Guangdong">List of universities and colleges in Guangdong</a>.</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="National_/_Double_First-Class"><span id="National_.2F_Double_First-Class"></span>National / Double First-Class</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: National / Double First-Class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> (7) </th> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Medical_University" title="Guangzhou Medical University">Guangzhou Medical University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_University_of_Chinese_Medicine" title="Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine">Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jinan_University" title="Jinan University">Jinan University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_China_Agricultural_University" title="South China Agricultural University">South China Agricultural University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_China_Normal_University" title="South China Normal University">South China Normal University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_China_University_of_Technology" title="South China University of Technology">South China University of Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen_University" title="Sun Yat-sen University">Sun Yat-sen University</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> </th> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Southern_University_of_Science_and_Technology" title="Southern University of Science and Technology">Southern University of Science and Technology</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SHENZHEN_UNIVERSITY_GENERAL_HOSPITAL.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/SHENZHEN_UNIVERSITY_GENERAL_HOSPITAL.jpg/220px-SHENZHEN_UNIVERSITY_GENERAL_HOSPITAL.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/SHENZHEN_UNIVERSITY_GENERAL_HOSPITAL.jpg/330px-SHENZHEN_UNIVERSITY_GENERAL_HOSPITAL.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/SHENZHEN_UNIVERSITY_GENERAL_HOSPITAL.jpg/440px-SHENZHEN_UNIVERSITY_GENERAL_HOSPITAL.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8192" data-file-height="5464" /></a><figcaption>Shenzhen University – medical building</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Provincial">Provincial</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Provincial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dongguan_Institute_of_Technology&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Dongguan Institute of Technology (page does not exist)">Dongguan Institute of Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dongguan_University_of_Technology" title="Dongguan University of Technology">Dongguan University of Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foshan_University" title="Foshan University">Foshan University</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong_Education_and_Research_Network&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Guangdong Education and Research Network (page does not exist)">Guangdong Education and Research Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_General_Hospital" title="Guangdong General Hospital">Guangdong General Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Institute_of_Education" title="Guangdong Institute of Education">Guangdong Institute of Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Institute_of_Science_and_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangdong Institute of Science and Technology">Guangdong Institute of Science and Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Medical_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangdong Medical College">Guangdong Medical College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Ocean_University" title="Guangdong Ocean University">Guangdong Ocean University</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong_Petrochemical_Academy&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Guangdong Petrochemical Academy (page does not exist)">Guangdong Petrochemical Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Pharmaceutical_University" title="Guangdong Pharmaceutical University">Guangdong Pharmaceutical University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Polytechnic_Normal_University" title="Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University">Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong_Radio_and_TV_University&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Guangdong Radio and TV University (page does not exist)">Guangdong Radio and TV University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_University_of_Finance_%26_Economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangdong University of Finance &amp; Economics">Guangdong University of Finance &amp; Economics</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong_University_of_Finance&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Guangdong University of Finance (page does not exist)">Guangdong University of Finance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_University_of_Technology" title="Guangdong University of Technology">Guangdong University of Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Academy_of_Fine_Arts" title="Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts">Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangzhou_Education_College&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Guangzhou Education College (page does not exist)">Guangzhou Education College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Normal_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangzhou Normal University">Guangzhou Normal University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Sports_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangzhou Sports University">Guangzhou Sports University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_University" title="Guangzhou University">Guangzhou University</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hanshan_Teachers_College&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Hanshan Teachers College (page does not exist)">Hanshan Teachers College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huizhou_University" title="Huizhou University">Huizhou University</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Panyu_Polytechnic&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Panyu Polytechnic (page does not exist)">Panyu Polytechnic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaoguan_University" title="Shaoguan University">Shaoguan University</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shenzhen_Party_School&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenzhen Party School (page does not exist)">Shenzhen Party School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shantou_University" title="Shantou University">Shantou University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen_University" title="Shenzhen University">Shenzhen University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen_Technology_University" title="Shenzhen Technology University">Shenzhen Technology University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen_Polytechnic" class="mw-redirect" title="Shenzhen Polytechnic">Shenzhen Polytechnic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shunde_University&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Shunde University (page does not exist)">Shunde University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Medical_University" title="Southern Medical University">Southern Medical University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wuyi_University_(Guangdong)" title="Wuyi University (Guangdong)">Wuyi University</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xijiang_University&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Xijiang University (page does not exist)">Xijiang University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xinghai_Conservatory_of_Music" title="Xinghai Conservatory of Music">Xinghai Conservatory of Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhanjiang_Normal_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Zhanjiang Normal University">Zhanjiang Normal University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhongkai_University_of_Agriculture_and_Engineering" title="Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering">Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhaoqing_University" title="Zhaoqing University">Zhaoqing University</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tianhe_Stadium.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Tianhe_Stadium.jpg/220px-Tianhe_Stadium.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Tianhe_Stadium.jpg/330px-Tianhe_Stadium.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Tianhe_Stadium.jpg/440px-Tianhe_Stadium.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tianhe_Stadium" title="Tianhe Stadium">Tianhe Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a></figcaption></figure> <p>List of current professional <a href="/wiki/Team_sport" title="Team sport">sports</a> based in Guangdong: </p> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="width:70%;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Sport </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Sports_league" title="Sports league">League</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/League_system" title="League system">Tier</a> </th> <th>Club </th> <th>City </th> <th>Stadium </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Super_League" title="Chinese Super League">Chinese Super League</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen_Peng_City_F.C." title="Shenzhen Peng City F.C.">Shenzhen Peng City</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bao%27an_Stadium" title="Bao&#39;an Stadium">Bao'an Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Super_League" title="Chinese Super League">Chinese Super League</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Meizhou_Hakka_F.C." title="Meizhou Hakka F.C.">Meizhou Hakka</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wuhua_County" title="Wuhua County">Wuhua</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wuhua_County_Stadium" title="Wuhua County Stadium">Wuhua County Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/China_League_One" title="China League One">China League One</a> </td> <td align="center">2nd </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_F.C." title="Guangzhou F.C.">Guangzhou F.C.</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Huadu_Stadium" title="Huadu Stadium">Huadu Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/China_League_One" title="China League One">China League One</a> </td> <td align="center">2nd </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Foshan_Nanshi_F.C." title="Foshan Nanshi F.C.">Foshan Nanshi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Foshan" title="Foshan">Foshan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nanhai_Sports_Center" title="Nanhai Sports Center">Nanhai Sports Center</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Futsal" title="Futsal">Futsal</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Futsal_League" title="Chinese Futsal League">China Futsal League</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zhuhai_Mingshi&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Zhuhai Mingshi (page does not exist)">Zhuhai Mingshi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhuhai" title="Zhuhai">Zhuhai</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zhuhai_Sports_Centre&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Zhuhai Sports Centre (page does not exist)">Zhuhai Sports Centre</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Chinese Basketball Association">Chinese Basketball Association</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Southern_Tigers" title="Guangdong Southern Tigers">Guangdong Southern Tigers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dongguan" title="Dongguan">Dongguan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nissan_Sports_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Nissan Sports Centre">Nissan Sports Centre</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Chinese Basketball Association">Chinese Basketball Association</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen_Leopards" title="Shenzhen Leopards">Shenzhen Leopards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen_Universiade_Sports_Centre" title="Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre">Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Chinese Basketball Association">Chinese Basketball Association</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Long-Lions" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangzhou Long-Lions">Guangzhou Long-Lions</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tianhe_Gymnasium" title="Tianhe Gymnasium">Tianhe Gymnasium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(China)" title="National Basketball League (China)">National Basketball League</a> </td> <td align="center">2nd </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hefei_Yuanchuang" class="mw-redirect" title="Hefei Yuanchuang">Hefei Yuanchuang</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Foshan" title="Foshan">Foshan</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Women&#39;s Chinese Basketball Association">Women's Basketball Association</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Asia_Aluminum" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangdong Asia Aluminum">Guangdong Asia Aluminum</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhaoqing" title="Zhaoqing">Zhaoqing</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zhaoqing_Stadium&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Zhaoqing Stadium (page does not exist)">Zhaoqing Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Volleyball" title="Volleyball">Volleyball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Volleyball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Volleyball League">Men's Volleyball League Div A</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong_GSports&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Guangdong GSports (page does not exist)">Guangdong GSports</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shenzhen_Gymnasium&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenzhen Gymnasium (page does not exist)">Shenzhen Gymnasium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Volleyball" title="Volleyball">Volleyball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Volleyball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Volleyball League">Women's Volleyball League Div A</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Evergrande_Women%27s_Volleyball_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Guangdong Evergrande Women&#39;s Volleyball Club">Guangdong Evergrande</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shenzhen_Gymnasium&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenzhen Gymnasium (page does not exist)">Shenzhen Gymnasium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Volleyball" title="Volleyball">Volleyball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Volleyball_Super_League" title="Chinese Volleyball Super League">Women's Volleyball League Div A</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shenzhen_Phoenix_(Women%27s_Volleyball)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenzhen Phoenix (Women&#39;s Volleyball) (page does not exist)">Shenzhen Phoenix</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">Baseball</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/China_National_Baseball_League" title="China National Baseball League">China National Baseball League</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Leopards" title="Guangdong Leopards">Guangdong Leopards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Huangcun_Stadium&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Huangcun Stadium (page does not exist)">Huangcun Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Table_tennis" title="Table tennis">Table Tennis</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/China_Table_Tennis_Super_League" title="China Table Tennis Super League">China Table Tennis Super League</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shenzhen_Bao%27an_Mingjinhai&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenzhen Bao&#39;an Mingjinhai (page does not exist)">Shenzhen Bao'an Mingjinhai</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bao%27an_Stadium" title="Bao&#39;an Stadium">Bao'an Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Esports" title="Esports">Esports</a>(<a href="/wiki/Overwatch_(video_game)" title="Overwatch (video game)"><small>Overwatch</small></a>) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Overwatch_League" title="Overwatch League">Overwatch League</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_Charge" title="Guangzhou Charge">Guangzhou Charge</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tianhe_Gymnasium" title="Tianhe Gymnasium">Tianhe Gymnasium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Esports" title="Esports">Esports</a> (<small><a href="/wiki/League_of_Legends" title="League of Legends">League of Legends</a></small>) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/League_of_Legends_Pro_League" title="League of Legends Pro League">League of Legends Pro League</a> </td> <td align="center">1st </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Victory_Five" title="Victory Five">Victory Five</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shenzhen_Media_Group_Longgang_Production_Center&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenzhen Media Group Longgang Production Center (page does not exist)">Shenzhen Media Group Longgang Production Center</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tourism">Tourism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Tourism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Huangmanzhai.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Huangmanzhai.jpg/220px-Huangmanzhai.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Huangmanzhai.jpg/330px-Huangmanzhai.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Huangmanzhai.jpg/440px-Huangmanzhai.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Huangmanzhai Waterfall</figcaption></figure> <p>Notable attractions include <a href="/wiki/Danxia_Mountain" class="mw-redirect" title="Danxia Mountain">Danxia Mountain</a> in Shaoguan, <a href="/wiki/Yuexiu_Hill" title="Yuexiu Hill">Yuexiu Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baiyun_Mountain_(Guangdong)" title="Baiyun Mountain (Guangdong)">Baiyun Mountain</a> in Guangzhou, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Star_Lake_(Zhaoqing)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Star Lake (Zhaoqing) (page does not exist)">Star Lake</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Star_Crags" title="Seven Star Crags">Seven Star Crags</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dinghu_Mountain" title="Dinghu Mountain">Dinghu Mountain</a> in Zhaoqing, the <a href="/wiki/Huangmanzhai_waterfalls" title="Huangmanzhai waterfalls">Huangmanzhai waterfalls</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jieyang" title="Jieyang">Jieyang</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Zhongshan_Park" title="Zhongshan Park">Zhongshan Sun Wen Memorial Park</a> for <a href="/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen" title="Sun Yat-sen">Sun Yat-sen</a> in <a href="/wiki/Zhongshan" title="Zhongshan">Zhongshan</a>. In Shenzhen, there are <a href="/wiki/Window_of_the_World" title="Window of the World">Window of the World</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tencent" title="Tencent">Tencent Building</a>, Happy Valley theme park, Rose Beach, Xiaomeisha Beach, etc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Administrative divisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a more comprehensive list, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_of_Guangdong" title="List of administrative divisions of Guangdong">List of administrative divisions of Guangdong</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_township-level_divisions_of_Guangdong" title="List of township-level divisions of Guangdong">List of township-level divisions of Guangdong</a>.</div> <p>Guangdong is divided into twenty-one <a href="/wiki/Prefecture-level_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Prefecture-level division">prefecture-level divisions</a>: all <a href="/wiki/Prefecture-level_city" title="Prefecture-level city">prefecture-level cities</a> (including two <a href="/wiki/Sub-provincial_divisions_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-provincial divisions in the People&#39;s Republic of China">sub-provincial cities</a>): </p> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:1em auto 1em auto; width:90%; text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9">Administrative divisions of Guangdong </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="9"><div style="position: relative" class="center"> <div role="img" class="noresize" style="width: 798px; line-height: 1; text-align: center; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Administrative_Division_Guangdong_%28PRC_claimed%29.svg/798px-Administrative_Division_Guangdong_%28PRC_claimed%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="798" height="600" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Administrative_Division_Guangdong_%28PRC_claimed%29.svg/1197px-Administrative_Division_Guangdong_%28PRC_claimed%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Administrative_Division_Guangdong_%28PRC_claimed%29.svg/1596px-Administrative_Division_Guangdong_%28PRC_claimed%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1330" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> <div style="position:absolute; left:372px; top:244px"><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:393px; top:82px"><a href="/wiki/Shaoguan" title="Shaoguan">Shaoguan</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:438px; top:322px"><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:360px; top:382px"><a href="/wiki/Zhuhai" title="Zhuhai">Zhuhai</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:699px; top:250px"><a href="/wiki/Shantou" title="Shantou">Shantou</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:318px; top:277px"><a href="/wiki/Foshan" title="Foshan">Foshan</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:288px; top:361px"><a href="/wiki/Jiangmen" title="Jiangmen">Jiangmen</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:30px; top:493px"><a href="/wiki/Zhanjiang" title="Zhanjiang">Zhanjiang</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:105px; top:388px"><a href="/wiki/Maoming" title="Maoming">Maoming</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:234px; top:223px"><a href="/wiki/Zhaoqing" title="Zhaoqing">Zhaoqing</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:465px; top:259px"><a href="/wiki/Huizhou" title="Huizhou">Huizhou</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:651px; top:148px"><a href="/wiki/Meizhou" title="Meizhou">Meizhou</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:588px; top:280px"><a href="/wiki/Shanwei" title="Shanwei">Shanwei</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:528px; top:172px"><a href="/wiki/Heyuan" title="Heyuan">Heyuan</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:192px; top:385px"><a href="/wiki/Yangjiang" title="Yangjiang">Yangjiang</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:312px; top:142px"><a href="/wiki/Qingyuan" title="Qingyuan">Qingyuan</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:408px; top:289px"><a href="/wiki/Dongguan" title="Dongguan">Dongguan</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:360px; top:337px"><a href="/wiki/Zhongshan" title="Zhongshan">Zhongshan</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:714px; top:193px"><a href="/wiki/Chaozhou" title="Chaozhou">Chaozhou</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:642px; top:247px"><a href="/wiki/Jieyang" title="Jieyang">Jieyang</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:195px; top:298px"><a href="/wiki/Yunfu" title="Yunfu">Yunfu</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:405px; top:388px"><span style="font-size:120%">↑</span></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:390px; top:409px"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau"><img alt="Macau" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_Macau.svg/23px-Flag_of_Macau.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_Macau.svg/35px-Flag_of_Macau.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_Macau.svg/45px-Flag_of_Macau.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span><br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"><i><a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a></i></span></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:438px; top:349px"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong"><img alt="Hong Kong" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/45px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span><br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold"><i><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></i></span></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:174px; top:520px"><span style="color: red;">☐</span> <span style="color: grey;">Jieshi Town, Lufeng, Shanwei (<a href="/wiki/Pratas_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Pratas Islands">Pratas Iss.</a>).<br />Claimed by <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span>PRC &amp; controlled by <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span>ROC, see <a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan" title="Political status of Taiwan">Political status of Taiwan</a>.</span></div> </div> </div> </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Administrative_division_codes_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Administrative division codes of the People&#39;s Republic of China">Division code</a><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span 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href="/wiki/Counties_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of the People&#39;s Republic of China">Counties</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_counties_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous counties of the People&#39;s Republic of China">Aut. counties</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/County-level_city" title="County-level city">CL cities</a> </th></tr> <tr style="font-weight: bold"> <th>440000</th> <th>Guangdong Province </th> <td>179,800.00</td> <td>126,012,510</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> city</td> <td>65</td> <td>34</td> <td>3</td> <td>20 </td></tr> <tr style="background:#98fb98;"> <th>440100</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> city </th> <td>7,434.40</td> <td>18,676,605</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yuexiu_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuexiu District">Yuexiu District</a></td> <td>11</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>440200</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Shaoguan" title="Shaoguan">Shaoguan</a> city </th> <td>18,412.53</td> <td>2,855,131</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhenjiang_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Zhenjiang District">Zhenjiang District</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>1</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr style="background:#98fb98;"> <th>440300</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> city </th> <td>1,996.78</td> <td>17,560,061</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Futian_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Futian District">Futian District</a></td> <td>9*</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>440400</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Zhuhai" title="Zhuhai">Zhuhai</a> city </th> <td>1,724.32</td> <td>2,439,585</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Xiangzhou_District,_Zhuhai" class="mw-redirect" title="Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai">Xiangzhou District</a></td> <td>3</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>440500</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Shantou" title="Shantou">Shantou</a> city </th> <td>2,248.39</td> <td>5,502,031</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jinping_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Jinping District">Jinping District</a></td> <td>6</td> <td>1</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>440600</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Foshan" title="Foshan">Foshan</a> city </th> <td>3,848.49</td> <td>9,498,863</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chancheng_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Chancheng District">Chancheng District</a></td> <td>5</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>440700</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Jiangmen" title="Jiangmen">Jiangmen</a> city </th> <td>9,505.42</td> <td>4,798,090</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pengjiang_District" 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title="Duanzhou District">Duanzhou District</a></td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <th>441300</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Huizhou" title="Huizhou">Huizhou</a> city </th> <td>11,342.98</td> <td>6,042,852</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Huicheng_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Huicheng District">Huicheng District</a></td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>441400</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Meizhou" title="Meizhou">Meizhou</a> city </th> <td>15,864.51</td> <td>3,873,239</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Meijiang_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Meijiang District">Meijiang District</a></td> <td>2</td> <td>5</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <th>441500</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Shanwei" title="Shanwei">Shanwei</a> city </th> <td>4,861.79</td> <td>2,672,819</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chengqu,_Shanwei" title="Chengqu, Shanwei">Cheng District</a></td> <td>1</td> 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title="Xiangqiao District">Xiangqiao District</a></td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td style="background:gray;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th>445200</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Jieyang" title="Jieyang">Jieyang</a> city </th> <td>5,265.38</td> <td>5,577,814</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rongcheng_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Rongcheng District">Rongcheng District</a></td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <th>445300</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Yunfu" title="Yunfu">Yunfu</a> city </th> <td>7,779.12</td> <td>2,383,350</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yuncheng_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuncheng District">Yuncheng District</a></td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td style="background:gray;"></td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom"> <td colspan="12"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;background-color:#98FB98; color:black;">&#160;</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Sub-provincial_divisions_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-provincial divisions in the People&#39;s Republic of China">Sub-provincial cities</a></div> <p>* – not including the new districts which are not registered under the Ministry of Civil Affairs (not included in the total Districts' count)<br /> ** – direct-piped cities – does not contain any county-level divisions </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" style="width:auto; text-align:center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="5">Administrative divisions in Chinese and varieties of romanizations </th></tr> <tr> <th>English</th> <th>Chinese</th> <th>Pinyin</th> <th>Guangdong Romanization </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>Guangdong Province</b></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">广东省</span></span></td> <td><b>Guǎngdōng Shěng</b></td> <td><b>guong2 dung1 sang2</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">广州市</span></span></td> <td>Guǎngzhōu Shì</td> <td>guong2 zeo1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shaoguan" title="Shaoguan">Shaoguan City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">韶关市</span></span></td> <td>Sháoguān Shì</td> <td>xiu4 guan1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">深圳市</span></span></td> <td>Shēnzhèn Shì</td> <td>sem1 zen3 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhuhai" title="Zhuhai">Zhuhai City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">珠海市</span></span></td> <td>Zhūhǎi Shì</td> <td>ju1 hoi2 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shantou" title="Shantou">Shantou City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">汕头市</span></span></td> <td>Shàntóu Shì</td> <td>san3 teo4 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Foshan" title="Foshan">Foshan City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">佛山市</span></span></td> <td>Fóshān Shì</td> <td>fed6 san1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jiangmen" title="Jiangmen">Jiangmen City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">江门市</span></span></td> <td>Jiāngmén Shì</td> <td>gong1 mun4 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhanjiang" title="Zhanjiang">Zhanjiang City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">湛江市</span></span></td> <td>Zhànjiāng Shì</td> <td>zam3 gong1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Maoming" title="Maoming">Maoming City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">茂名市</span></span></td> <td>Màomíng Shì</td> <td>meo6 ming4 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhaoqing" title="Zhaoqing">Zhaoqing City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">肇庆市</span></span></td> <td>Zhàoqìng Shì</td> <td>xiu6 hing3 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Huizhou" title="Huizhou">Huizhou City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">惠州市</span></span></td> <td>Huìzhōu Shì</td> <td>wei6 zeo1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Meizhou" title="Meizhou">Meizhou City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">梅州市</span></span></td> <td>Méizhōu Shì</td> <td>mui4 zeo1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shanwei" title="Shanwei">Shanwei City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">汕尾市</span></span></td> <td>Shànwěi Shì</td> <td>san3 méi5 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Heyuan" title="Heyuan">Heyuan City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">河源市</span></span></td> <td>Héyuán Shì</td> <td>ho4 yun4 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yangjiang" title="Yangjiang">Yangjiang City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">阳江市</span></span></td> <td>Yángjiāng Shì</td> <td>yêng4 gong1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Qingyuan" title="Qingyuan">Qingyuan City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">清远市</span></span></td> <td>Qīngyuǎn Shì</td> <td>qing1 yun5 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dongguan" title="Dongguan">Dongguan City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">东莞市</span></span></td> <td>Dōngguǎn Shì</td> <td>dung1 gun2 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhongshan" title="Zhongshan">Zhongshan City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">中山市</span></span></td> <td>Zhōngshān Shì</td> <td>zung1 san1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chaozhou" title="Chaozhou">Chaozhou City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">潮州市</span></span></td> <td>Cháozhōu Shì</td> <td>qiu4 zeo1 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jieyang" title="Jieyang">Jieyang City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">揭阳市</span></span></td> <td>Jiēyáng Shì</td> <td>kid3 yêng4 xi5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yunfu" title="Yunfu">Yunfu City</a></td> <td><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">云浮市</span></span></td> <td>Yúnfú Shì</td> <td>wen4 feo4 xi5 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The twenty-one <a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Prefectures of the People&#39;s Republic of China">Prefecture</a> of Guangdong are subdivided into 122 <a href="/wiki/County-level_division" class="mw-redirect" title="County-level division">county-level divisions</a> (65 <a href="/wiki/District_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="District of China">districts</a>, 20 <a href="/wiki/County-level_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="County-level cities">county-level cities</a>, 34 <a href="/wiki/County_(People%27s_Republic_of_China)" class="mw-redirect" title="County (People&#39;s Republic of China)">counties</a>, and 3 <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_counties_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous counties of the People&#39;s Republic of China">autonomous counties</a>). For county-level divisions, see the <a href="/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_of_Guangdong" title="List of administrative divisions of Guangdong">list of administrative divisions of Guangdong</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Urban_areas">Urban areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=27" title="Edit section: Urban areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable collapsible"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="6">Population by urban areas of prefecture &amp; county cities </th></tr> <tr> <th>#</th> <th>Cities</th> <th style="background-color: #aaaaff;">2020 Urban area<sup id="cite_ref-2020PRCcensus_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020PRCcensus-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></th> <th style="background-color: #aaaaff;">2010 Urban area<sup id="cite_ref-2010PRCcensus_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010PRCcensus-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></th> <th style="background-color: #ffaaaa;">2020 City proper </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a></td> <td>17,444,609</td> <td>10,358,381</td> <td>17,494,398 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a></b></td> <td>16,096,724</td> <td>9,702,144<sup id="cite_ref-Guangzhou_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guangzhou-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>18,676,605 </td></tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dongguan" title="Dongguan">Dongguan</a></td> <td>9,644,871</td> <td>7,271,322</td> <td>10,466,625 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Foshan" title="Foshan">Foshan</a></td> <td>9,042,509</td> <td>6,771,895</td> <td>9,498,863 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhongshan" title="Zhongshan">Zhongshan</a></td> <td>3,841,873</td> <td>2,740,994</td> <td>4,418,060 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shantou" title="Shantou">Shantou</a></td> <td>3,838,900</td> <td>3,644,017</td> <td>5,502,031 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Huizhou" title="Huizhou">Huizhou</a></td> <td>2,900,113</td> <td>1,807,858</td> <td>6,042,852 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhuhai" title="Zhuhai">Zhuhai</a></td> <td>2,207,090</td> <td>1,369,538</td> <td>2,439,585 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jiangmen" title="Jiangmen">Jiangmen</a></td> <td>1,795,459</td> <td>1,480,023</td> <td>4,798,090 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhanjiang" title="Zhanjiang">Zhanjiang</a></td> <td>1,400,709</td> <td>1,038,762</td> <td>6,981,236 </td></tr> <tr> <td>11</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maoming" title="Maoming">Maoming</a></td> <td>1,307,802</td> <td>637,879<sup id="cite_ref-Maoming_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maoming-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>6,174,050 </td></tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chaozhou" title="Chaozhou">Chaozhou</a></td> <td>1,254,007</td> <td>448,226<sup id="cite_ref-Chaozhou_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chaozhou-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>2,568,387 </td></tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jieyang" title="Jieyang">Jieyang</a></td> <td>1,242,906</td> <td>734,670<sup id="cite_ref-Jieyang_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jieyang-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>5,577,814 </td></tr> <tr> <td>14</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Qingyuan" title="Qingyuan">Qingyuan</a></td> <td>1,197,581</td> <td>639,659<sup id="cite_ref-Qingyuan_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Qingyuan-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>3,969,473 </td></tr> <tr> <td>15</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhaoqing" title="Zhaoqing">Zhaoqing</a></td> <td>1,035,810</td> <td>559,887<sup id="cite_ref-Zhaoqing_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zhaoqing-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>4,113,594 </td></tr> <tr> <td>16</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shaoguan" title="Shaoguan">Shaoguan</a></td> <td>1,028,460</td> <td>726,267</td> <td>2,855,131 </td></tr> <tr> <td>17</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Puning" title="Puning">Puning</a></td> <td>935,668</td> <td>874,954</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Jieyang</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>18</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yangjiang" title="Yangjiang">Yangjiang</a></td> <td>859,595</td> <td>499,053<sup id="cite_ref-Yangjiang_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yangjiang-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>2,602,959 </td></tr> <tr> <td>19</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Meizhou" title="Meizhou">Meizhou</a></td> <td>694,495</td> <td>353,769<sup id="cite_ref-Meizhou_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meizhou-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>3,873,239 </td></tr> <tr> <td>20</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Heyuan" title="Heyuan">Heyuan</a></td> <td>662,950</td> <td>450,953</td> <td>2,837,686 </td></tr> <tr> <td>21</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lufeng,_Guangdong" title="Lufeng, Guangdong">Lufeng</a></td> <td>545,474</td> <td>579,527</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Shanwei</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>22</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gaozhou" title="Gaozhou">Gaozhou</a></td> <td>490,301</td> <td>352,006</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Maoming</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>23</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Huazhou,_Guangdong" title="Huazhou, Guangdong">Huazhou</a></td> <td>472,746</td> <td>320,418</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Maoming</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>24</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sihui" title="Sihui">Sihui</a></td> <td>452,536</td> <td>355,709</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Zhaoqing</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>25</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lianjiang,_Guangdong" title="Lianjiang, Guangdong">Lianjiang</a></td> <td>443,812</td> <td>359,225</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Zhanjiang</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>26</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Taishan,_Guangdong" title="Taishan, Guangdong">Taishan</a></td> <td>433,266</td> <td>394,855</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Jiangmen</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>27</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaiping" title="Kaiping">Kaiping</a></td> <td>430,035</td> <td>371,019</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Jiangmen</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>28</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Xinyi,_Guangdong" title="Xinyi, Guangdong">Xinyi</a></td> <td>418,731</td> <td>333,965</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Maoming</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>29</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leizhou" title="Leizhou">Leizhou</a></td> <td>412,291</td> <td>344,043</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Zhanjiang</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>30</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yingde" title="Yingde">Yingde</a></td> <td>398,066</td> <td>346,927</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Qingyuan</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>31</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wuchuan,_Guangdong" title="Wuchuan, Guangdong">Wuchuan</a></td> <td>388,714</td> <td>332,672</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Zhanjiang</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>32</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yunfu" title="Yunfu">Yunfu</a></td> <td>380,044</td> <td>242,040<sup id="cite_ref-Yunfu_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yunfu-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>2,383,350 </td></tr> <tr> <td>33</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Xingning,_Guangdong" title="Xingning, Guangdong">Xingning</a></td> <td>365,661</td> <td>392,000</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Meizhou</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>34</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yangchun" title="Yangchun">Yangchun</a></td> <td>360,359</td> <td>287,391</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Yangjiang</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>35</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shanwei" title="Shanwei">Shanwei</a></td> <td>345,373</td> <td>370,608</td> <td>2,738,482 </td></tr> <tr> <td>36</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Heshan,_Guangdong" title="Heshan, Guangdong">Heshan</a></td> <td>334,432</td> <td>282,580</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Jiangmen</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>37</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Luoding" title="Luoding">Luoding</a></td> <td>317,060</td> <td>263,338</td> <td><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>see Yunfu</i></span> </td></tr> <tr> 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&#39;sing&#39;">ŋ</span></span>-/</a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Guangzhou-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Guangzhou_70-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guangzhou_70-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guangzhou_70-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">New districts established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Conghua_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Conghua District">Conghua (Conghua CLC)</a> &amp; <a href="/wiki/Zengcheng_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Zengcheng District">Zengcheng (Zengcheng CLC)</a>. These new districts not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Maoming-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Maoming_71-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">New district established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Dianbai_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Dianbai District">Dianbai (Dianbai County)</a>. The new district not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Chaozhou-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Chaozhou_72-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">New district established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Chao%27an_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Chao&#39;an District">Chao'an (Chao'an County)</a>. The new district not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jieyang-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Jieyang_73-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">New district established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Jiedong_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Jiedong District">Jiedong (Jiedong County)</a>. The new district not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Qingyuan-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Qingyuan_74-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">New district established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Qingxin_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Qingxin District">Qingxin (Qingxin County)</a>. The new district not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Zhaoqing-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Zhaoqing_75-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Zhaoqing_75-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">New district established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Gaoyao_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaoyao District">Gaoyao (Gaoyao CLC)</a>. The new district not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Yangjiang-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Yangjiang_76-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">New district established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Yangdong_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Yangdong District">Yangdong (Yangdong County)</a>. The new district not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Meizhou-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Meizhou_77-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">New district established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Meixian_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Meixian District">Meixian (Meixian County)</a>. The new district not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Yunfu-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Yunfu_78-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">New district established after 2010 census: <a href="/wiki/Yun%27an_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Yun&#39;an District">Yun'an (Yun'an County)</a>. The new district not included in the urban area count of the pre-expanded city.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_relations">International relations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=28" title="Edit section: International relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Guangdong is twinned with: </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Aichi_Prefecture.svg/22px-Flag_of_Aichi_Prefecture.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Aichi_Prefecture.svg/33px-Flag_of_Aichi_Prefecture.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Aichi_Prefecture.svg/43px-Flag_of_Aichi_Prefecture.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Aichi_Prefecture" title="Aichi Prefecture">Aichi Prefecture</a>, Japan<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii"><img alt="Hawaii" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaiʻi</a>, United States of America<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales"><img alt="New South Wales" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_South_Wales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, Australia<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span><a href="/wiki/Gujarat,_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Gujarat, India">Gujarat, India</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span></span><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/California" title="California"><img alt="California" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/23px-Flag_of_California.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/35px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/45px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, United States of America<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=29" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Major_national_historical_and_cultural_sites_(Guangdong)" class="mw-redirect" title="Major national historical and cultural sites (Guangdong)">Major national historical and cultural sites in Guangdong</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=30" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=31" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guangdong&amp;action=edit&amp;section=32" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div 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London: Bloomsbury Press. pp.&#160;31–32. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-62040-347-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-62040-347-1"><bdi>978-1-62040-347-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Tragedy+of+Liberation%3A+A+History+of+the+Chinese+Revolution%2C+1945%E2%80%931957&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=31-32&amp;rft.edition=1&amp;rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Press&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-62040-347-1&amp;rft.aulast=Dik%C3%B6tter&amp;rft.aufirst=Frank&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGuangdong" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDikötter201376-81-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDikötter201376-81_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDikötter2013">Dikötter 2013</a>, p.&#160;76-81.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:53-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:53_35-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:53_35-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSantos2021" class="citation book cs1">Santos, Gonçalo (2021). <i>Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition</i>. 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Chinapost.com.tw. 22 June 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120924083855/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/commentary/the-china-post/joe-hung/2009/06/22/213223/Sovereignty-over.htm">Archived</a> from the original on 24 September 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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May 2005. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201103005408/http://smzt.gd.gov.cn/qhgk/gsqh/200505/sws/">Archived</a> from the original on 3 November 2020. <q>城区{...}(东沙群岛不是镇建制)</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E6%B0%91%E6%94%BF%E5%8E%85%E7%BD%91%E7%AB%99&amp;rft.atitle=%E6%B1%95%E5%B0%BE%E5%B8%82&amp;rft.date=2005-05&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsmzt.gd.gov.cn%2Fqhgk%2Fgsqh%2F200505%2Fsws%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGuangdong" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-chengqu-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-chengqu_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREF广东省国土资源厅Category:Articles_containing_Chinese-language_text2018" class="citation map cs1 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans">广东省国土资源厅</span></span> (30 June 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200707201843/http://nr.gd.gov.cn/attachment/0/328/328278/2265301.jpg"><bdi lang="zh">城区地图</bdi></a> (Map). <i>Department of Natural Resources of Guangdong Province <span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans">广东省自然资源厅</span></span></i> (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nr.gd.gov.cn/attachment/0/328/328278/2265301.jpg">the original</a> on 7 July 2020 &#8211; via <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>. <q><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans">东沙群岛{...}北卫滩{...}南卫滩{...}东沙岛{...}东沙礁</span></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Department+of+Natural+Resources+of+Guangdong+Province+%3Cspan+title%3D%22Chinese-language+text%22%3E%3Cspan+lang%3D%22zh-Hans%22%3E%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E8%87%AA%E7%84%B6%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90%E5%8E%85%3C%2Fspan%3E%3C%2Fspan%3ECategory%3AArticles+containing+Chinese-language+text&amp;rft.atitle=%E5%9F%8E%E5%8C%BA%E5%9C%B0%E5%9B%BE&amp;rft.date=2018-06-30&amp;rft.au=%3Cspan+title%3D%22Chinese-language+text%22%3E%3Cspan+lang%3D%22zh-Hans%22%3E%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E5%9B%BD%E5%9C%9F%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90%E5%8E%85%3C%2Fspan%3E%3C%2Fspan%3ECategory%3AArticles+containing+Chinese-language+text&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnr.gd.gov.cn%2Fattachment%2F0%2F328%2F328278%2F2265301.jpg&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGuangdong" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220127080537/http://www.gd.gov.cn/gdywdt/gdyw/content/mpost_3768737.html">"省十三届人大五次会议开幕 李玉妹主持 王伟中作政府工作报告 李希黄楚平王荣等出席 广东省人民政府门户网站"</a>. <i>www.Guangdong Provincial People's Government</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gd.gov.cn/gdywdt/gdyw/content/mpost_3768737.html">the original</a> on 27 January 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 January</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.Guangdong+Provincial+People%27s+Government&amp;rft.atitle=%E7%9C%81%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%89%E5%B1%8A%E4%BA%BA%E5%A4%A7%E4%BA%94%E6%AC%A1%E4%BC%9A%E8%AE%AE%E5%BC%80%E5%B9%95+%E6%9D%8E%E7%8E%89%E5%A6%B9%E4%B8%BB%E6%8C%81+%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9F%E4%B8%AD%E4%BD%9C%E6%94%BF%E5%BA%9C%E5%B7%A5%E4%BD%9C%E6%8A%A5%E5%91%8A+%E6%9D%8E%E5%B8%8C%E9%BB%84%E6%A5%9A%E5%B9%B3%E7%8E%8B%E8%8D%A3%E7%AD%89%E5%87%BA%E5%B8%AD+%E5%B9%BF%E4%B8%9C%E7%9C%81%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E6%94%BF%E5%BA%9C%E9%97%A8%E6%88%B7%E7%BD%91%E7%AB%99&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gd.gov.cn%2Fgdywdt%2Fgdyw%2Fcontent%2Fmpost_3768737.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGuangdong" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-IMF-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-IMF_40-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IMF_40-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IMF_40-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFInternational_Monetary_Fund" class="citation web cs1">International Monetary Fund. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2023/April">"World Economic Outlook Database, April 2023"</a>. <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=World+Economic+Outlook+Database%2C+April+2023&amp;rft.pub=International+Monetary+Fund&amp;rft.au=International+Monetary+Fund&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imf.org%2Fen%2FPublications%2FWEO%2Fweo-database%2F2023%2FApril&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGuangdong" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><b>Purchasing power parity</b> (PPP) for Chinese yuan is estimate according to <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">IMF</a> <i><b><a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Outlook" class="mw-redirect" title="World Economic Outlook">WEO</a></b></i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28"><b>October 2017</b></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110717100927/http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28">Archived</a> 17 July 2011 at Wikiwix) data; 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