Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - Which direction does Guangdong belong to in China, southeast or southwest, or what?

Which direction does Guangdong belong to in China, southeast or southwest, or what?

Guangdong is located in Lingnan, the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland. It is adjacent to Fujian in the east, Guangxi in the west, Jiangxi and Hunan in the north, and Taiwan Province Province and Hainan across the sea in the southeast and south. The land area starts from the border between Fujian and Guangdong in Dacheng Town, Raoping County in the east, to the border between Guangdong and Guangxi in Lianjiang County in the west, to the southernmost tip of xuwen county in Leizhou Peninsula in the south and to the northernmost border of Shangqitou Village in Lechang County in the north. Between 2012 ˊ-25 31ˊ N and 0/09 45 ˊ17 20 ˊ E; The distance from east to west is about 800 kilometers, and the distance from north to south is about 655 kilometers. The neighboring provinces are Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Hainan, Macau and Hong Kong. It is located in the south of China, with Nanling Mountains in the north, Wuyishan Mountains in the northeast and the South China Sea in the south, with a coastline of 3,368 kilometers (excluding the island coastline).

Guangdong Province, named after Lingnan East Road and Guangnan East Road, is called "Guangdong" for short. Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, is a coastal province at the southern tip of Chinese mainland. It is located in the south of Nanling, on the coast of the South China Sea, bordering Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and facing Hainan across the sea. It is divided into four regions: Pearl River Delta, East Guangdong, West Guangdong and North Guangdong, and governs 2 1 prefecture-level cities.

Guangdong province has a unique style in language customs, traditions, history and culture, and is an important inheritance place of Lingnan culture. Cantonese, Hakka dialect and Min dialect are widely used, and the centers of Cantonese and Hakka dialect are in Guangdong. Guangdong Province is also the province with the largest population and the most open society and culture in China, with millions of foreigners living in Guangdong.

Before the Qin Dynasty, the ancestors of the Chinese nation, Nanyue people, had been engaged in agricultural activities in Guangdong Province, which was one of the earliest areas in the history of China and one of the earliest provinces where the capitalist mode of production appeared in China. By 1987, Guangdong's industrial output value has accounted for 79.6% of the province's total industrial and agricultural output value, becoming the leading sector of the national economy, and industries such as food, machinery, chemicals, textiles and sewing have become the pillar industries of Guangdong Province. Since 1989, Guangdong's GDP has been ranked first among 30 provinces and cities in China. Guangdong Province has become the largest economy province in China, accounting for 1/8 of the national total, surpassing Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province, becoming the province with the largest economic scale, the strongest comprehensive economic competitiveness and financial strength in China, reaching the level of upper-middle-income countries and moderately developed countries.