How many cities are there in Guangdong? What are they?

***44 cities, 2 sub-provincial cities, 19 prefecture-level cities and 23 county-level cities.

Two sub-provincial cities: Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

19 Prefecture-level cities: Zhuhai, Shantou, Foshan, Shaoguan, Zhanjiang, Zhaoqing, Jiangmen, Maoming, Huizhou, Meizhou, Shanwei, Heyuan, Yangjiang, Qingyuan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Yunfu Guangzhou: Guangzhou is located in the south of China and the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta.

23 county-level cities: Zengcheng, Conghua, Nanxiong, Lechang, yingde city, Lianzhou, Taishan, Kaiping, Heshan, enping city, Lianjiang, Leizhou, Wuchuan, Gaozhou, Huazhou, Xinyi, Gaoyao, Sihui, xingning city, Lufeng, Yang Chun and Puning.

Guangdong is also called Guangdong. As the abbreviation of Guangdong, the original meaning of "Guangdong" refers to Baiyue in South China. In ancient literature, "Yue" and "Yue" are interchangeable and can be used at will. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the meaning of the word "Guangdong" narrowed, generally referring to Lingnan area, or "South Guangdong".

About 6.5438+0.29 million years ago, the early ancients (Maba people) appeared in Lingnan. During the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, Guangdong ancestors had economic and cultural exchanges with the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in the Central Plains. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Lingnan had close relations and frequent contacts with Fujian, Wu, Yue and Chu. The legends of Chuting and Nanwucheng in history reflect the relationship between Lingnan and Chuyue in this period.

There is also a record of "writing a letter" in Guoyu Chu Yu Shang, which shows that there was a military and political relationship between Lingnan and Chu at that time. In 222 BC, after Ying Zheng, king of Qin, unified the six countries, he sent Tu Youyou to lead 500,000 Qin Jun to attack Lingnan. In 2 14 BC, Qin Jun basically occupied Lingnan. Immediately, Qin Shihuang set up three counties of "Guilin, Elephant and Nanhai" in the Lingnan area he captured.

Nanhai County governs the Southeast South China Sea, Hezhou, Guangxi, and Bei Nanling, including parts of eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong, central Guangdong and western Guangdong. It governs Panyu, Longchuan, Boluo and Sihui (according to Hanshu), and the county governs Panyu. Today, most of Guangdong Province belongs to Nanhai County. In addition, parts of western Guangdong belong to Xiang County and Guilin County, and parts of northern Guangdong belong to Changsha County. This is the first time in the history of Guangdong to divide administrative regions.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the prefect of Nanhai County was critically ill, and appointed Longchuan County to make Zhao Tuo take his place. After Ren Tao's death, Zhao Tuo rose up and cut off Wuling's road to the Central Plains. When Qin died, Zhao Tuo attacked Guilin by force and established Nanyue State, calling himself the "King of Nanyue". At that time, except Lianzhou and Lechang North, Guangdong was under the jurisdiction of Changsha County. Zhao Tuo and later Nanyue implemented the county system like the Han Dynasty.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pacified South Vietnam, the Han Dynasty divided South Vietnam into Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin, Hepu, Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, Rinan, Boer and Zhuyajiu counties. In order to facilitate the supervision of county officials, the Han Dynasty also set up a 13 resident supervision agency, called the "Thirteen Division", which was located in the Land Division of Guangxin County (now Fengkai, Guangdong Province) in Cangwu County and was responsible for correcting the nine counties in Lingnan.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiaotoe Department was changed to Jiaozhou. Besides the supervisory power, Jiaotoe Department also had military power and became a county-level government. The local administrative system was changed from county level 2 to state, county and county level 3. Today's Guangdong Province includes the whole Nanhai County under the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou (the central and eastern part of Guangdong), as well as Cangwu County, Hepu County, Guiyang County in Jingzhou and a part of Zhang Yu County in Yangzhou. Among them, Nanhai County added three counties compared with Qin Dynasty: Jieyang, Suzhong (now Qingyuan) and Zengcheng.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Battle of Red Cliffs, Wei, Shu and Wu gradually formed a tripartite confrontation. In AD 2 10 (the 15th year of Jian 'an of Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty), Wu Sunquan appointed Bu Zhi as the secretariat of Jiaozhou and led his troops to Panyu. In 2 17 (the 22nd year of Jian 'an), Buzhi moved the state administration of Jiaozhou from Guangxin to Panyu.

In 264 (the seventh year of Emperor Yongan's reign), Soochow divided four counties (Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin and Gaoliang) from Jiaozhou, and set up Guangzhou to govern Panyu, hence the name. During the period of Wu Dong, Guangdong Province now includes Shixing County and Hainan Island in Jingzhou, in addition to the four counties under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou.

In the Western Jin Dynasty, the hinterland of Guangdong Province belonged to Guangzhou, northern Guangdong belonged to Jingzhou, and Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island belonged to Jiaozhou. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the political situation in China was divided between the North and the South. The rulers of the Southern Dynasties carried out the policy of "detaining" the Li nationality (Vietnamese), and a large number of officials were sealed in the same place, which led to a sharp increase in the number of counties.

Most of the newly-added states, counties and counties are concentrated in central Guangdong, western Guangdong and northern Guangdong, with few in eastern Guangdong. Because the agricultural economy in eastern Guangdong is not as developed as that in western Guangdong, and the transportation is not as convenient as that in western Guangdong. At the beginning of Sui Dynasty, Guangzhou and Zhou Xun (now Huizhou) were appointed as the Governor General's Office to administer the whole country. Yang Di abolished the state as a county and changed it to two levels, namely, county and county, and greatly increased the number of provinces. Today, Guangdong province belongs to 10 county and 74 counties.