Guangdong
广东 Canton, Kwangtung | |
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Chinese transcription(s) | |
• Simplified Chinese | 广东省 |
• Hanyu pinyin | Guǎngdōng shěng |
• Cantonese Jyutping | gwong2 dung1 saang2 |
• Abbreviation | GD / 粤 (Yuè / jyut6) |
From top to bottom, left to right: Canton Tower in Guangzhou, Shenzhen Bay, Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, Huangmanzhai Waterfall, Taishan Xiachuan Island | |
![]() Map showing the location of Guangdong Province | |
Coordinates: 23°24′N 113°30′E / 23.4°N 113.5°E | |
Country | China |
Named for | Abbreviated from "Guǎngnándōng Lù" (A "lù" (often translated "Circuit") was equal to a province or a state in
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Government | |
• Type | Province |
• Body | Guangdong Provincial People's Congress |
• Party Secretary | Huang Kunming |
• Congress Chairman | Huang Chuping |
• Governor | Wang Weizhong |
• Provincial CPPCC Chairman | Lin Keqing |
• National People's Congress Representation | 169 deputies |
Area | |
• Total | 179,800 km2 (69,400 sq mi) |
• Rank | 15th |
Highest elevation | 1,902 m (6,240 ft) |
Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 126,012,510 |
• Rank | 1st |
• Density | 700/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
• Rank | 7th |
Demonym(s) | Cantonese, Guangdongese[3] |
GDP (2023)[4] | |
• Total | CN¥ 13.57 trillion (1st)
US$ 1.93 trillion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 106,986 (7th)
US$ 15,182 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-GD |
HDI (2021) | 0.799[5] (6th) – high |
Website | www |
Guangdong,[a] previously romanized as Kwangtung or Canton, is a coastal province in South China, on the north shore of the South China Sea.[7] The provincial capital is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.84 million (as of 2021)[8] across a total area of about 179,800 km2 (69,400 sq mi),[1] Guangdong is China's most populous province and its 15th-largest by area, as well as the third-most populous country subdivision in the world.
Guangdong's economy is the largest of any provincial-level division in China, with a GDP of 13.57 trillion RMB ($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 Maritime Silk Road.[9] 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 Hong Kong, which it borders to the south. Guangdong also hosts the largest import and export fair in China, the Canton Fair, in Guangzhou. The Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, a Chinese megalopolis, is a core for high technology, manufacturing and foreign trade. In this zone are two of the four top Chinese cities and the top two Chinese prefecture-level cities by GDP: Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the first special economic zone in the country. These two are among China's most populous and important cities, and have become two of the world's most populous megacities and leading financial centres in the Asia-Pacific region.[10]
Guangdong surpassed Henan and Shandong to become China's most populous province in January 2005, registering 79.1 million permanent residents and 31 million migrants who lived in the province for at least six months of the year;[11][12] the total population was 126,012,510 in the 2020 Chinese census, accounting for 8.93 percent of mainland China's population.[13] This makes it the most populous first-level administrative subdivision of any country outside South Asia. The vast majority of the historical Guangdong Province is administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC). Pratas Island in the South China Sea is part of Cijin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ROC); the island was part of Guangdong Province before the Chinese Civil War.[14][15]
After the unification of Lingnan region during the Qin dynasty, immigrants from the Central Plains moved in and formed a local culture with a unique style. With the outward movement of the Guangdong people, the Hakka and Cantonese languages, music, cuisine, opera and tea ceremony have spread throughout the nation, Southeast Asia, and other countries. Guangdong was also the birthplace of the father of modern China and the founder of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen. He declared a military government there in the Warlord Era. The two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau fall within the scope of Guangdong's cultural influence, and its culture still has profound influences on the Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia, with the vast majority of the Chinese diaspora in the two countries claiming ancestry from Guangdong.
Guangdong is also one of the leading provinces in research and education in China. It hosts 160 institutions of higher education, ranking first in the South Central China region and second among all Chinese provinces/municipalities, after Jiangsu.[16] As of 2023, two major cities in the province ranked in the top 20 cities in the world (Guangzhou 9th and Shenzhen 19th) by scientific research output, as tracked by the Nature Index.[17]
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