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Guangdong
[ gwahng-dawng ]
noun
- a province in southeastern China. 89,344 sq. mi. (231,401 sq. km). : Canton.
Guangdong
/ ˈɡwæŋˈdʊŋ /
noun
- a province of SE China, on the South China Sea: includes the Leizhou Peninsula, with densely populated river valleys; traditionally also including Macao and Hong Kong; the only true tropical climate in China. Capital: Canton. Pop: 79 540 000 (2003 est). Area: 197 100 sq km (76 100 sq miles)
Example Sentences
Restrictions on the wildlife trade were minimal in the aftermath of SARS, which gave scientists almost unlimited access to animals and traders in Guangdong’s wet markets—but even that wasn’t enough to help them pin down the source of SARS.
The book connects, for example, an AI-driven pig-farming operation in Guangdong to Silicon Valley surveillance culture, while avoiding the easy binaries of tech solutionism and paranoia.
The animal was then sold at a wet market–where fresh meat, fish and sometimes live animals are sold–in Guangdong, from which it jumped to humans.
“We know that Hong Kong people call us locusts,” said Mr. Sun, a visitor from Guangdong province.
Its language—Cantonese—is spoken only in neighboring Macau and Guangdong province.
Scores of Chinese in Guangdong province began to immigrate to California through the Port of San Francisco.
But the existence of underground markets selling tiger in Guangdong has long been an open secret.
On a visit to China three years ago, I was taken to a hilltop park in a small city in Guangdong province.
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