How many counties are there in Guangdong Province?

Guangdong Province has 119 county-level administrative districts.

Guangdong, whose name evolved from Lingnan East Road and Guangnan East Road, is referred to as "Guangdong". The provincial capital of Guangzhou is a province on the southern coast of mainland China. Located to the south of Nanling, on the coast of the South China Sea, it borders Hong Kong, Macau, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and faces Hainan across the sea. It has jurisdiction over 21 prefecture-level cities (including 2 sub-provincial cities) and 119 county-level administrative districts (60 municipal districts, 20 county-level cities, 36 counties, and 3 autonomous counties)

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The land area of ??Guangdong Province is 179,800 square kilometers, accounting for approximately 1.87% of the country's land area; of which the island area is 1,592.7 square kilometers, accounting for approximately 0.89% of the province's land area. There are 759 islands with an area of ??more than 500 square meters along the coast of the province (Due to historical reasons, the Dongsha Islands are controlled by the Taiwan authorities), ranking third in China after Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. There are also 1,631 open reefs and dry reefs. The province's mainland coastline is 3,368.1 kilometers long. According to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Sea, the territorial sea, continental shelf and exclusive economic zone are under the jurisdiction of coastal countries. The total sea area of ????the province is 419,000 square kilometers.

Reference source: Guangdong_Baidu Encyclopedia