What cities are there in Guangdong?

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.

1, Pearl River Delta: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing and Huizhou.

2. East Guangdong: Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei.

3. Western Guangdong: Zhanjiang, Maoming and Yangjiang.

4. Northern Guangdong: Shaoguan, Qingyuan, Yunfu, Meizhou and Heyuan.

Extended data

Guangdong has 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 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.

Most of the mountain ranges in Guangdong province are consistent with the geological structure, mostly from northeast to southwest, such as Luoping Mountain in western Guangdong, central Guangdong and eastern Guangdong and Lianhua Mountain in eastern Guangdong. Most of the mountainous areas in northern Guangdong are arc-shaped mountains arched to the south, and there are a few northwest-southeast mountains in eastern Guangdong and western Guangdong. There are valleys and basins between the mountains. The Pearl River Delta Plain is the largest, followed by Chaoshan Plain, and there are alluvial plains such as Gaoyao, Qingyuan, Yangcun and Huiyang. These platforms are distributed in Leizhou Peninsula-Dianbai-Yangjiang area and Haifeng-Chaoyang area.

References:

Guangdong _ Baidu encyclopedia