What is the ranking of urban areas in Guangdong Province?

Qingyuan 1.9 million square kilometers

2. Shaoguan 18600 square kilometers

3. Meizhou covers an area of 65438+592500 square kilometers.

4. Heyuan 1582 1 km2

5. Zhaoqing 65438+500,000 square kilometers

6. Zhanjiang 12490 km2

7. Maoming 1 1445 square kilometers

8. Huizhou 1 1200 square kilometers

9. Jiangmen 954 1 km2

10. Yangjiang 7822 square kilometers

1 1. Yunfu is 7779 square kilometers.

12. Guangzhou 7434.4 square kilometers

13. Jieyang covers an area of 5240 square kilometers.

14. Shanwei is 4838 square kilometers.

15. Foshan is 3868 square kilometers.

16. Chaozhou 36 14 km2

17. Dongguan has 2465 square kilometers.

18. Shantou 2064 square kilometers

19. Shenzhen 1953 km2

20. Zhongshan 1783.67 square kilometers

2 1. Zhuhai 170 1 km2

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Guangdong, whose name evolved from Lingnan East Road and Guangnan East Road, is called "Guangdong" for short. Guangzhou, the provincial capital, is a coastal province at the southern tip of Chinese mainland. Located in the south of Nanling and on the coast of the South China Sea, it borders Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and faces Hainan across the sea. It has jurisdiction over 2 1 prefecture-level cities (including 2 sub-provincial cities) and 9 county-level administrative regions (60 municipal districts, 20 county-level cities, 36 counties and 3 autonomous counties).

Guangdong is an important inheritance place of Lingnan culture, which has a unique style in language, customs, living habits, history and culture. Cantonese, Hakka and Min dialects are widely used in Guangdong, and the centers of Cantonese and Hakka dialects are in Guangdong. Guangdong is also the most populous province in China at present.

Guangdong is the seat of Pangu Kingdom in the South China Sea. Archaeology confirmed that Guangdong had a high degree of civilization in the pre-Qin period and was one of the cradles of Chinese civilization. Guangdong is the southern gate of China and the shipping hub in the South China Sea. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Guangdong ancestors have embarked on the road of communication with other countries through the sea and become the earliest birthplace of the Maritime Silk Road. After the reform and opening up, Guangdong has become the frontier of reform and opening up and the window to introduce western economy, culture and technology, and has made remarkable achievements.

The land area of Guangdong Province is 179800 square kilometers, accounting for about 1.87% of the national land area. Among them, the island area 1592.7 square kilometers, accounting for about 0.89% of the province's land area. There are 759 islands with a coastal area of more than 500 square meters in the province (due to historical reasons, dongsha islands is controlled by the authorities of Taiwan Province Province), ranking third in China after Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. There are also 163 1 reef opening and dry reef. The coastline of the whole province is 3368. 1 km. According to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that the territorial sea, continental shelf and exclusive economic zone are under the jurisdiction of coastal countries, the total sea area of the province is 410.9 million square kilometers.

There are 2 1 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province, which are divided into four regions: Pearl River Delta, East Guangdong, West Guangdong and North Guangdong, among which the Pearl River Delta: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing and Huizhou; Eastern Guangdong: Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei; Western Guangdong: Zhanjiang, Maoming and Yangjiang; Northern Guangdong: Shaoguan, Qingyuan, Yunfu, Meizhou and Heyuan.

References:

Guangdong-Baidu encyclopedia