Guangdong

Guangdong ({{zh-stpw |t=廣東 |s=广东 |p=Guǎngdōng |w=Kuang-tung}}; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1; Vietnamese: Qu?ng ?ông), 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.

Administrative divisions

The current immediate administrative divisions of Guangdong consist of 21 prefecture-level cities:

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• Chaozhou (潮州)
• Dongguan (东莞)
• Foshan (佛山)
• Guangzhou (广州)
• Heyuan (河源)
• Huizhou (惠州)
• Jiangmen (江门)
• Jieyang (揭阳)
• Maoming (茂名)
• Meizhou (梅州)
• Qingyuan (清远)
• Shantou (汕头)
• Shanwei (汕尾)
• Shaoguan (韶关)
• Shenzhen sub-provincial city (深圳)
• Yangjiang (阳江)
• Yunfu (云浮)
• Zhanjiang (湛江)
• Zhaoqing (肇庆)
• Zhongshan (中山)
• Zhuhai (珠海)

The above division govern, in total, 49 districts, 30 county-level cities, 42 counties, and 3 autonomous counties.

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