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Also known as: Kuang-tung, Kwangtung
Written by
Yue-man Yeung
Professor of Geography, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Yue-man Yeung,
Chen-tung Chang
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, National University of Singapore. Author of Fertility Transition in Singapore.
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Guangdong, sheng (province) of South China. It is the southernmost of the mainland provinces and constitutes the region through which South China’s trade is primarily channeled. Guangdong has one of the longest coastlines of any province, fronting the South China Sea to the southeast and south (including connections to the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau). It is also bounded by the Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi to the west and by the provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi to the north and Fujian to the northeast. The capital is Guangzhou (Canton), at the head of the Pearl ...(100 of 4313 words)

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