Guangzhou
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. Zhujiang New Town in the Tianhe district According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 12.7 million, making it the third largest city in China after Shanghai and Beijing.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
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Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is an international airport serving Guangzhou, the capital of South Central China's Guangdong province.
Yuexiu
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Yuexiu is a central district in Guangzhou. The old walled city of Guangzhou was here, though it has been mostly redeveloped.
Tianhe
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Tianhe is the new city center and business district of Guangzhou.
Destinations
Liwan
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Liwan District is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China.
North and East
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Zengcheng District is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China.
Panyu and Nansha
Panyu and Nansha are two districts of Guangzhou in China's Guangdong province, and within the Pearl River Delta.Haizhu
Haizhu is a district in Guangzhou. It lies just south of historic Guangzhou, across the Pearl River.Photo: TraineeCupid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Huaisheng Mosque
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The Huaisheng Mosque is the main mosque of Guangzhou.
Yuexiushan Stadium
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The Yuexiushan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, named after its location at the foot of Yuexiu Hill.
Sacred Heart Cathedral
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The Sacred Heart Cathedral, properly the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and also known as the Stone Chamber or Stone House by locals, is a Gothic Revival Roman Catholic cathedral in Guangzhou, China.
Localities in the Area
Dengfeng
Dengfeng is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.The southern end of Baohan Straight Street, the heart of the African area…Dadong
Dadong is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.Baiyun
Baiyun is a subdistrict of the Yuexiu District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.Guangzhou
- Type: City with 14,000,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Guangdong Province, China
- Neighbors: Zhaoqing and Zhongshan
- Categories: sub-province-level division, prefecture-level city, big city, megacity, metropolis and locality
- Location: Guangzhou Shi, Pearl River Delta, Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.1302° or 23° 7' 49" northLongitude
113.2593° or 113° 15' 34" eastPopulation
14,000,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)IATA airport code
CANUnited Nations Location Code
CN GGZOpen Location Code
7PMM47J5+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 244080443OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1809858Wikidata ID
Q16572Guangzhou Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Guangzhou
- Afar: Guangjow
- Afrikaans: Guangzhou
- Afrikaans: Kwangtsjou
- Albanian: Guangzhou
- Amharic: ጓንግዦው
- Arabic: Guangzhou
- Arabic: جوانج زاو
- Arabic: جوانزو
- Arabic: صين كلان
- Arabic: غوانجو
- Arabic: غوانزو
- Arabic: قوانتشو
- Arabic: قوانجو
- Arabic: قوانغتشو
- Arabic: كانتون (مدينة بالصين)
- Arabic: كوانجو
- Arabic: كوانزو
- Armenian: Գուանչժոու
- Asturian: Cantón
- Asturian: Guangzhou
- Azerbaijani: Quanqcou
- Azerbaijani: Quançjou
- Bambara: Guangzhou
- Bashkir: Гуанчжоу
- Basque: Guangzhou
- Belarusian: Гуанчжоу
- Belarusian: Гуанчжоў
- Belarusian: Кантон
- Bengali: কুয়াংচৌ
- Bengali: ক্যান্টন
- Bengali: গুয়ংঝো
- Bengali: গুয়াংজু
- Bengali: গুয়াংঝু
- Bengali: গুয়াংঝৌ
- Bosnian: Guangzhou
- Bosnian: Kanton
- Breton: Guangzhou
- Bulgarian: Гуанджоу
- Burmese: ကွမ်ကျိုးမြို့
- Catalan: Canton
- Catalan: Guangzhou
- Cebuano: Guangzhou
- Central Kurdish: گوانگژۆو
- Chechen: Гуанчжоу
- Cheyenne: Guangzhou
- Chinese: Guǎngzhōu
- Chinese: Guǎngzhōu Shì
- Chinese: Kńg-chiu-chhī
- Chinese: 五羊城
- Chinese: 广州
- Chinese: 广州市
- Chinese: 廣州
- Chinese: 廣州市
- Chinese: 穗
- Chinese: 穗城
- Chinese: 粤
- Chinese: 羊城
- Chinese: 花城
- Chuvash: Гуанчжоу
- Cornish: Guangzhou
- Croatian (Historic): Kanton
- Croatian: Guangzhou
- Czech: Kanton
- Danish: Guangzhou
- Dimli (individual language): Guangzhou
- Dutch: Guangzhou
- Dutch: Kanton
- Eastern Mari: Гуанчжоу
- Egyptian Arabic: جوانزو
- English: Can-ton
- English: Canton
- English: Kuang-chou
- English: Kwang-tong
- English: Kwangchow
- English: Kwangtong
- English: Kwongchow
- Esperanto: Guǎngzhōu
- Esperanto: Kantono
- Estonian: Guangzhou
- Extremaduran: Cantón
- Faroese: Guangzhou
- Fijian: Guagasu
- Fijian: Guangzhou
- Finnish: Guangzhou
- Finnish: Kanton
- French: Cantam
- French: Canton
- French: Guangzhou
- Galician: Cantón, China
- Galician: Cantón
- Gan Chinese: 广州市
- Gan Chinese: 廣州
- Georgian: გუანჯოუ
- German: Guangzhou
- German: Kanton
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌽𐍄𐍉
- Greek: Γκουανγκτζόου
- Greek: Κουανγκτσόου
- Gujarati: ગ્વાંગજ્હો
- Hakka Chinese: Kóng-chiu-sṳ
- Hakka Chinese: Kóng-chû-sṳ
- Hausa: Guangzhou
- Hausa: Kóng-chû-sṳ
- Hebrew: גואנג'ואו
- Hebrew: גואנגג'ואו
- Hebrew: גואנגגואו
- Hebrew: גואנגז'ו
- Hindi: ग्वांगझोउ
- Hungarian: Kanton
- Icelandic: Guangzhou
- Ido: Guangzhou
- Indonesian: Guangzhou
- Interlingue: Guangzhou
- Irish: Guangzhou
- Italian: Canton
- Italian: Guangzhou
- Japanese: 広州
- Japanese: 広州市
- Japanese: 穂
- Japanese: 穂城
- Japanese: 羊城
- Japanese: 花城
- Kalaallisut: Guangzhou
- Kannada: ಕಾಂಟಂ
- Kannada: ಗುವಾಂಗ್ಝೌ
- Kara-Kalpak: Guangjow
- Karachay-Balkar: Гуанчжоу
- Kazakh: Гуанчжоу
- Khmer: ក្វាងចូវ
- Kikuyu: Guangzhou
- Kirghiz: Гуанчжоу
- Korean: 광저우
- Korean: 광저우 시
- Korean: 광저우시
- Kurdish: Guangzhou
- Lao: ກວ່າງໂຈວ
- Latin: Guangzhou
- Latin: Quancheum
- Latvian: Guandžou
- Latvian: Kantona
- Lingala: Guangzhou
- Literary Chinese: 廣州市
- Lithuanian: Guangdžou
- Luxembourgish: Guangzhou
- Macedonian: Гуангџоу
- Maithili: ग्वांगझोउ
- Malagasy: Guangzhou
- Malay: Guangzhou
- Malayalam: ഗ്വാങ്ജോ
- Maltese: Guangzhou
- Maori: Guangzhou
- Marathi: क्वांगचौ
- Mazanderani: گوانگجو
- Min Dong Chinese: Guōng-ciŭ
- Min Nan Chinese: Kńg-chiu-chhī
- Mingrelian: გუანჯოუ
- Mingrelian: კანტონი
- Mingrelian: კვონგჩოუ
- Mingrelian: კუანგჩოუ
- Mongolian: Гуанжоу
- Nepali: ग्वाङझाउ
- Northern Frisian: Guangzhou
- Norwegian: Guangzhou
- Norwegian: Kanton
- Norwegian Bokmål: Guangzhou
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Guangzhou
- Nyanja: Guangzhou
- Occitan (post 1500): Canton
- Ossetian: Гуанчжоу
- Pampanga: Guangzhou
- Panjabi: ਗੁਆਂਗਜ਼ੂ
- Persian: گوانجو
- Persian: گوانگژو
- Piemontese: Cantòn
- Polish: Kanton
- Portuguese: Cantam
- Portuguese: Cantão
- Portuguese: Cantão (Cantão)
- Portuguese: Cantão (cidade)
- Quechua: Guangzhou
- Romanian: Guangzhou
- Russia Buriat: Гуанчжоу
- Russian (Historic): Кантон
- Russian: Гуанчжоу
- Sakizaya: Guangzhou
- Santali: ᱜᱩᱣᱟᱝᱡᱚᱣ
- Santali: ᱠᱮᱱᱴᱚᱱ
- Scots: Guangzhou
- Serbian: Гуангџоу
- Serbo-Croatian: Guangzhou
- Silesian: Kantůn (Chiny)
- Silesian: Kantůn
- Sinhala: ගුවන්ෂෝ
- Sinhala: ගුවාන්සෝ
- Slovak: Kanton
- Slovenian: Guangdžov
- Slovenian: Gvangdžov
- South Azerbaijani: قوانگژو
- South Azerbaijani: کانتون
- Spanish: Canton
- Spanish: Cantón
- Spanish: Ciudad de la Ciencia
- Spanish: Guangzhou
- Swahili: Guangzhou
- Swedish: Guangzhou
- Tagalog: Guangzhou
- Tajik: Гуанчжоу
- Tamil: குவாங்சோ
- Tamil: குவாங்சௌ
- Tamil: குவான்சூ
- Tamil: க்வாங்ஜோ
- Tatar: Kanton
- Tatar: Гваңҗу
- Tatar: Гуаңҗу
- Telugu: గాంజో
- Thai: กว่างโจว
- Tibetan: ཀོང་ཀྲོའུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- Tok Pisin: Guangsu
- Tswana: Guangzhou
- Turkish: Guangzhou
- Turkmen: Guanjzo
- Uighur: گۇاڭجۇ شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Гуанчжоу
- Ukrainian: Ґуанчжоу
- Urdu: گوانگژو
- Uzbek: Guanchjou
- Uzbek: Kanton
- Veps: Guančžou
- Vietnamese: Quảng Châu
- Vietnamese: Quảng Châu thị
- Waray (Philippines): Guangzhou
- Welsh: Guangzhou
- Western Panjabi: شینیانگ
- Wolof: Guangzhou
- Wu Chinese: 广州
- Yakut: Гуандьоу
- Yue Chinese: 廣州
- Yue Chinese: 廣州市
- Yue Chinese: 羊城
- Yue Chinese: 花城
- Zhuang: Gvangjcouh
- Fan-yü
- Guangzhou Shi
- Kouang-chou
- Kuang-chou-shih
- Kwang-chowfu
- Puyün
- P’an-yü
- Shengcheng
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Guangzhou. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.