guangdong

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف guangdong في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: The richest province in China, located on the southern coast; or Kuang-tung conventional Kwangtung Southernmost mainland province (pop., 2000 est.: 86,420,000), China. It is bounded by the South China Sea to the south, and along its coast are Hong Kong and Macao; also bordering it are Fujian, Jiangxi, and Hunan provinces and Guangxi autonomous region. It has an area of 76,100 sq mi (197,100 sq km). The capital is Guangzhou (Canton). It was first incorporated into the Chinese empire in 222 BC. Overseas trade through Guangzhou swelled the population of the province in the 16th-17th centuries. It was the site of illicit opium importation by the British, which led to the First Opium War in 1841. Kowloon was ceded to Britain in 1860 and Macao to Portugal in 1887; both were restored to China in the late 1990s. Guangdong was a base for the Nationalists under Sun Yat-sen from 1912. Japanese forces occupied the province in 1938-45. Its centuries of foreign contact have given it a degree of self-sufficiency that sets it apart from the rest of China; more recently it has developed several special economic zones; {i} province in south China on the South China Sea; å»£ æ± : A province adjacent to Hong Kong in southern China Before the Opium War, Hong Kong was administered under Guangdong, which was named the Xin'an county during the Qing dynasty After the war, Hong Kong became dependent upon Guangdong for food supplies and raw materials During the prewar period, Guangdong became an important anti-Japanese base for importation of munitions from British Hong Kong; (gwang-dong) A province in Southern China; a province in southern China; > guangdong