What provinces are there in South China?

Southern China includes Guangdong Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hainan Province, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Macao Special Administrative Region. South China is located in the southernmost part of China. It not only has the Pearl River Delta, but also borders the South China Sea and the South China Sea Islands. It is a major port area along the coast.

The provinces in South China are dominated by Han people, mainly formed by immigrants from the Central Plains who migrated south. In 214 BC, after Qin Shihuang unified Lingnan, he moved 500,000 people from the Central Plains in order to consolidate his rule over Lingnan. Over the past 2,200 years since the Qin Dynasty unified Lingnan, there have been at least six major waves of immigration in local history. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pacified Lingnan and left occupying troops to garrison it. After the fall of the Western Han Dynasty and Wang Mang's usurpation of power and other political changes, five more groups of immigrants came to Lingnan.