Guangdong

Guangdong (; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1; Vietnamese: Qu?ng ??ng), is a province on the south coast of the People's Republic of China. Sometimes, "Canton Province" (based on an obsolete French-derived transliteration of "Guangdong") is used to mean Guangdong. This is as opposed to "Canton (City)", which refers to the city of Guangzhou, the provincial capital.

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"Guang" itself means "expanse" or "vast", and was associated with the region from the Western Jin Dynasty onwards. "Guangdong" and neighbouring Guangxi literally mean "expanse east" and "expanse west". Together, Guangdong and Guangxi are called the "Two Guangs" (兩廣 liăng guăng).

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The modern abbreviation 粵/粤 (Yue) is related to the peoples%29/">Hundred Yuet (百越), a collective name for various peoples that lived in Guangdong and other areas in ancient times.

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Postal System Pinyin: In the early twentieth century, China (starting with the dying Qing Empire) used Postal (Office) System Pinyin (郵政式拼音 Hanyu Pinyin: Y?uzh?ngsh? Pīnyīn) (unrelated to the modern Hanyu Pinyin), based on Wade-Giles (in particularly, Herbert Giles's A Chinese...

Jyutping: Jyutping (Traditional Chinese: 粵拼; Simplified Chinese: 粤拼; pinyin: yu?pīn; Yale: yuhtpīng; sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguist...

Vietnamese: When used as an adjective, Vietnamese refers to anything that originates from Vietnam. It may refer to more than one article:...