Guangdong

Guangdong Province in China

Guangdong (Chinese: 广东省) is a province on the southern coast of China. The meaning of the name in Chinese is "east of the expanse" or "expanse's east". It has a higher population and GDP than any other province in China. Its capital city is Guangzhou. Guangdong has 49 districts, 30 county-level cities, 42 counties, and three autonomous counties.

Guangdong has an area of 177,900 km² (68,700 sq mi) and is the 15th biggest province in China. In 2008, more than 95,440,000 people were living in Guangdong. They speak several different kinds of dialects. More than half of the people speak Yue Chinese, which is also the main dialect in the neighboring Hong Kong, while Min Chinese and Hakka Chinese each has about 20% of the total speakers.

The shortened name for Guangdong is Yue (粤), since Guangxi also shares the first word "Guang" (广), meaning "expanse".

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Kwangtung Provincial Government of the Republic of China
Breakfast dim sum in Hong Kong
Jiangmen beaches, Guangdong
Taishan Xiachuan Island, Guangdong
A horse in Hongshan village
Humen Pearl River Bridge
Shops in one of the electronic markets of Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, specialize in selling various electronic components, supplying the needs of local and global consumer electronics manufacturers.
Shenzhen famous building and tourist attractions
Guangzhou skyline
The har gow are classical Cantonese dumplings served as dim sum.