Geographic Profile of Guangdong Province

Geographic location: Guangdong Province, a province on the southern coast of mainland China, is located south of the Nanling Mountains, on the coast of the South China Sea, the whole territory is located in latitude 20 ° 09 ˊ ~ 25 ° 31 ˊ and longitude 109 ° 45 ˊ ~ 117 ° 20 ˊ between. It is named after Lingnan Dongdao (岭南东道) and Guangnan Donglu (廣南東路), and abbreviated as "Yue" (粤). The provincial capital is Guangzhou, which borders with Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and is separated from Hainan by the sea, and is divided into four regions: the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Region, the eastern part of Guangdong Province, the western part of Guangdong Province and the northern part of Guangdong Province, with 21 prefectural-level municipalities (of which there are two sub-provincial-level municipalities), and 119 county-level administrative districts (60 municipal districts, 20 county-level cities, 36 counties, and 3 autonomous counties) ?

Natural Geography: 1. Guangdong Province belongs to the East Asian Monsoon Zone, with the climate of Central Subtropical, South Subtropical and Tropical from north to south, and it is one of the richest regions in China in terms of light, heat and water resources.

2. Guangdong has abundant precipitation, with an average annual precipitation of between 1,300 and 2,500 millimeters, averaging 1,777 millimeters across the province. The spatial distribution of rainfall also basically shows a trend of high in the south and low in the north.

3. Most of the mountain ranges in Guangdong Province are in line with the direction of the geological structure, with the majority of north-east-south-west direction, such as the Luoping Mountain Range and the Lotus Mountain Range in the eastern part of Guangdong, which runs diagonally across the western part of Guangdong, the central part of Guangdong and the northeastern part of Guangdong; the mountain ranges in the northern part of Guangdong are mostly the arched mountain ranges arching out to the south, in addition to a small number of mountains in the eastern part of Guangdong and the western part of Guangdong with the direction of the north-west-south-east direction; there are large and small valleys and basins among the mountains. In addition, there are a few north-west-south-east trending mountain ranges in eastern and western Guangdong.

Human geography: Guangdong Province has a unique style of language, customs, traditions, history and culture, and is an important inheritance of Lingnan culture.

1. Cantonese, Hakka and Min are spoken, and the centers of the two major dialects, Cantonese and Hakka, are in Guangdong .

2. Guangdong Province is also the most populous, socially and culturally open province in China, with millions of foreigners living in Guangdong.

3. Since 1989, Guangdong's GDP has continuously ranked first among China's 30 provinces and cities. Guangdong Province has become China's first economic province, the total economic output accounts for 1/8 of the country, and surpassed Hong Kong and Taiwan, becoming China's largest economy, comprehensive economic competitiveness ? and the strongest province in terms of financial strength. and has reached the level of upper-middle-income countries and middle-developed countries.

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