Guangzhou in China is the capital of Guangdong Province. It used to be spelled Canton in English and transliterated as "Canton" in Chinese. Interestingly, there are 17 places named "Canton" in the United States. Except for a few, their origins are related to Guangzhou. Basic introduction Chinese name: Guangzhou Foreign name: Canton Alias: Canton Telephone area code: 020 Geographical location: Southeastern United States, Guangzhou, China, foreign Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China Guangzhou, referred to as Sui, also known as Yangcheng and Huacheng, is the capital and sub-provincial level of Guangdong Province City, national central city, megacity, international metropolis, international trade center, international comprehensive transportation hub, national comprehensive gateway city, one of the first batch of coastal open cities, and the headquarters of the Southern Theater Command. Guangzhou is located in the south-central part of Guangdong Province, on the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta, on the edge of the South China Sea, close to Hong Kong and Macau. It is China’s southern gate to the world, the core city of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, and the hub of the Belt and Road Initiative. City. Guangzhou is a national historical and cultural city. Since the Qin Dynasty, Guangzhou has been the administrative center of counties, prefectures and prefectures. It has always been the political, military, economic, cultural and scientific and educational center of South China. It is the birthplace and prosperity of Lingnan culture. one. Guangzhou has been the main port of the Maritime Silk Road since the 1930s. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, it became China's largest port and a world-famous oriental port city. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it became China's only major foreign trade port and the only one in the world. A great port that has been prosperous for more than 2,000 years. Guangzhou has a total area of ??7,434 square kilometers and governs 11 municipal districts. It has an oceanic subtropical monsoon climate, with warm and rainy weather, sufficient light and heat, and evergreen plants all year round. Guangzhou is rated as a first-tier city in the world by the global authoritative organization GaWC. The "China Import and Export Fair" held in Guangzhou every year attracts a large number of merchants and a large number of investments from foreign-funded enterprises and the world's top 500 companies. There are more than 8,700 national high-tech enterprises in Guangzhou, ranking among the top three in the country; the total number of college students in Guangzhou ranks first in the country. Guangzhou's total retail sales of consumer goods, total household deposits (resident savings deposits), and per capita household deposits all rank among the top three in the country, and its per capita disposable income ranks first in the province. The United Nations report pointed out that Guangzhou’s human development index ranks first in China. Nine cities in the Pearl River Delta, led by Guangzhou, will join forces with Hong Kong and Macao to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and become one of the four largest bay areas in the world. Foreign Guangzhou The industrial city "Canton" on the south bank of Lake Erie in Ohio has a population of more than 100,000 and is the largest of the 17 "Cantons" in the United States. In 1805, a man named Bezally Wells came here to develop a plantation and gradually formed a settlement. Wells had a friend who got rich through trade with Canton and built a plantation called "Canton" in Baltimore, Maryland. In order to achieve good fortune, Wells came up with a new idea and named the settlement he created "Guangzhou". After becoming the county seat of Stark County, "Canton" was upgraded to a city in 1854. "Canton" on the eastern seaboard of Massachusetts, 23 kilometers south of Boston, was originally a settlement established by British immigrants in 1650. Later, due to the frequent exchanges between Boston's merchant ships and Guangzhou, China, the place was officially named "Guangzhou" in 1797. In an area in upstate New York near the Canadian border, newly built villages and towns are mostly named after famous cities in the world, one of which is "Canton". It can be seen that in the minds of Americans, Guangzhou is a major commercial port in the world. "Guangzhou" in Georgia, the southeastern United States, has a local natural environment and subtropical climate conditions very similar to Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta. Residents are also mostly engaged in sericulture and silk reeling production, making it the raw silk base of the United States, hence the name "Guangzhou" . "Canton Town", located near Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, was founded in 1834. At that time, there were very few overseas Chinese settling in the United States, but there was a hard-working and capable Chinese here, nicknamed "Guangzhou", who had a good reputation. After his death, he was buried here, and people called this town "Guangzhou". "Canton" in central and western Illinois was established as a settlement in 1825 and as a city in 1849. Because it was mistakenly believed that the geographical location of the city in the Western Hemisphere was exactly the same as that of Guangzhou in the Eastern Hemisphere (that is, it is located at both ends of the same diameter of the earth, with equal latitude and opposite north-south directions, and a difference of 180° in longitude), so it was called Guangzhou. In fact, the city is near Chicago and is in the same northern hemisphere as Guangzhou, China (20° latitude difference), and the longitude difference is only 160°. "Cantontown" in southeastern South Dakota.
In 1806, European immigrants established a settlement here. In 1862, it became the county seat of Lincoln County and was named "Commercial City". In 1867, local residents thought that "Commercial City" did not look like the name of a place, and also mistakenly believed that it was at the same point as Guangzhou, so it was renamed "Guangzhou".