- Guangdong
Province - Guangdong
Province Urban population: 17 million
Nationalities: Han, Yao, Zhuang, Hui, Manchu, and She.
Area: 180,000 square kilometers
Coastline: 4,300 kilometers long
Climatic features: Subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate; rainy season from April to September; typhoons from May to November.
Average temperature: 8 - 17 C. in January, 27 - 29 C. in July.
Annual Average Rainfall: Over 1,500 mm; high precipitation on the southern side of mountains; 40 percent of the rain falls during the summer.
Physical features: Situated on the Tropic of Cancer; hills in the north and lowlands in the south; hills scattered along the coastline; faces the South China Sea; includes the Pearl (Zhujiang) River Delta; the Leizhou Peninsula extends to the southwest.
Mountains: From west to east, arranged in an arc, are the Yunwu, Nanling, Jiulian, and Lianhua Mountains.
Rivers: Pearl River, which is the confluence of the Xijiang, Beijiang, and Dongjiang Rivers from the west, north, and east, respectively.
Products: Rice, corn, potatoes, millet, sorghum, wheat, sugar cane, peanuts, soybeans, sesame, tea; silk cocoons, ambary hemp, jute; sun-cured tobacco; bananas, oranges, lychees, pineapples, longans, and other tropical and subtropical fruits; rubber, oil palm, sisal hemp; coffee, cocoa, lemongrass, pepper, oyster, abalne, pearl, sea horse, and other sea products; timber; wolfram, tin, antimony, bismuth, molybdenum, copper, lead, zinc, oil shale, salt, sulphur.
Administrative divisions: 15 cities, 73 counties, and 3 autonomous counties.
Capital: Guangzhou (Canton)
Neighboring Areas: Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Hainan Provinces; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; Hong Kong and Macao.
Major Cities: Guangzhou, Shantou, Foshan, Zhanjiang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shaoguan
Tourist Attractions: Seven Star Crags in Zhaoqing
Comments: Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Shantou are three of China's four special economic zones established in early 1980's.
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