![]() ![]() In 226 AD, the city became the seat of the Guang Prefecture (廣州 Guangzhou). The Han Dynasty annexed Nanyue in 111 BC, and Panyu became a provincial capital and remains so until this day. The foreign trade continued every dynasty and the city remains a major international trading port to this day. Recent archaeological founding of her palace suggests that the city might have traded frequently with foreigners by the sea routes. Panyu was expanded when it became the capital of the Nanyue Kingdom (南越) in 206 BC. The city has been continuously occupied since that time. It is believed that the first city built at the site of Guangzhou was Panyu (蕃禺, later simplifed to 番禺 the locals pronounced this in Cantonese as Poon Yu) founded in 214 BC. DistrictsĪs of April 28, 2005, the districts of Dongshan and Fangcun have been abolished and merged into Yuexiu and Liwan respectively at the same time the district of Nansha is established out of parts of Panyu, and the district of Luogang is established out of parts of Baiyun, Tianhe, Huangpu, and Zengcheng. It has direct jurisdiction over ten districts and two county-level cities. The city is part of the Pearl River Delta. Guangzhou is a Mandarin pronunciation of the Han ideographs. When the term "Canton" is pronounced in Portuguese it provides a closer oral rendering of the name in its original Cantonese. It was more convenient for Europeans who during the colonial period generally did not understand ideographic characters (see exonym and endonym). ![]() The city naturally represents the province and thus was erroneously used as the city's name. "Canton" was the convenient Portuguese romanisation of "Guangdong" Province, and the city Guangzhou is the capital of the province and frequently referred as 廣東省城 ("the Canton Province Capital City") or simply 省城 ("the Province City") by Cantonese people. The city can also be referred to as the MuMengCheng (City of Wood Wools), a reference to a tall, native tree that produces wool fibre in its gorgeous red blossoms. The city has the nicknames of Wuyangcheng (City of Five Rams), Yangcheng (City of Rams), Huacheng (City of Flowers), or Suicheng (City of Wheats). The Chinese abbreviation of Guangzhou is Sui (穗 pinyin: sùi Jyutping: seoi6 Yale: seuīh) or sometimes GZ. As of the 2000 census, the city has a population of 6 million, and a metropolitan population of 12.6 million, making it the most populous city in the province and the fifth most populous in China. ![]() It is a port on the Pearl River, navigable to the South China Sea. The city was formerly known internationally as Canton City or simply Canton, after a French language transliteration of the name of the province in Cantonese. Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province in southern mainland China. ![]()
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