Word Frequency
Guangdong (ˈɡwæŋˈdʊŋ
) or Kwangtung
Definitions
noun
- a province of SE China, on the South China Sea: includes the Leizhou Peninsula, with densely populated river valleys; traditionally also including Macao and Hong Kong; the only true tropical climate in China. Capital: Canton. Pop: 79 540 000 (2003 est). Area: 197 100 sq km (76 100 sq miles)
Example Sentences Including 'Guangdong'
A lychee fruit from a 400-year-old tree that fed emperors fetched £42,000 in Guangdong , China.Sun, News of the World (2002)
A team of 14 researchers was dispatched to Guangdong province.Globe and Mail (2003)
Earlier reports from China suggested the disease, which first struck Guangdong in November, was fading in February.Globe and Mail (2003)
Li was born in Guangdong Province in 1928 and first came to Hong Kong in 1939 for secondary education.Hong Kong! Hong Kong!
Shares in Guangdong Investment, the Hong-Kong based arm of the troubled Chinese company Guangdong Enterprises, fell almost 6 per cent.Independent (1999)
The 40-year-old doctor is from the Guangdong province, where the 2003 epidemic that claimed 800 lives began.New Scientist (2004)
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