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Guangzhou, [a] previously romanized as Canton [6] or Kwangchow, [7] is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. [8] Located on the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road.
Guangzhou a sub-provincial city, the second most populated prefectural-level division of People's Republic of China and it is divided into 11 districts. Guangzhou is further divided into 135 Subdistricts and 35 Towns .
[19] [20] Historically, Canton was also used for the province itself, [21] but often either specified as a province (e.g. Canton Province), [22] or written as Kwangtung in the Wade–Giles system and now most commonly as Guangdong in Pinyin. [23] The local people of the city of Guangzhou (Canton) and their language are called Cantonese in English.
It is operated by the state-owned Guangzhou Metro Corporation and was the fourth metro system to be built in mainland China. Having delivered 1.99 billion rides in 2013, [1] it is one of the busiest metro systems in the world. The current Guangzhou Metro system consists of fourteen lines: Line 1 (Guangzhou East Railway Station–Xilang)
The name "Pearl River" comes from the pearl-colored shells that lie within the Pearl's riverbed as it flows through the city of Guangzhou. A 500 kV power line, suspended from three of the tallest pylons in the world, crosses the river near the Nansha Bridge. River Pearl and Canton Tower
A map of Guangzhou ("Canton") in 1920, showing the route of the "Canton–Hankow railway" from the western suburbs north along the Pearl River. In 1897, a concession for the Beijing–Hankou railway was awarded to a Belgian consortium backed by French financing. The British were then the dominant foreign power in China, and the Belgian ...
Port of Guangzhou is the main seaport of Guangzhou city, [1] Guangdong province, China. The port is operated by Guangzhou Port Group Co. Ltd which is a state owned company. The company was established on February 26, 2004 from the former Guangzhou Harbor Bureau. It was approved by the Guangzhou Municipal Government. It is currently the largest ...
In 1936 the Hankow-Canton (Hankou-Guangzhou) railway was completed. [11] With the Kowloon-Canton (Hong Kong-Guangzhou) railway, this formed a rapid all-rail link from south China to central and northern China. [11] For the first sixteen months of the war about 60,000 tons of goods transited per month through the port of Hong Kong. [12]