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Megalopolis in South China
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Guangzhou and Hong Kong both have major international airports, and Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Macau also have large airports; all these airports are modern and efficient, having been built or greatly expanded since about…
Read in the guideThe 50-km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau link, a bridge and tunnel opened in October 2018, makes it possible to travel quickly across the Pearl River Delta without taking the ferry.
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is the provincial capital and the economic and cultural center of the region. It is a few hours up the Pearl River, is thousands of years old and has been a trading city since the days of the Maritime Silk Road.
center for the garment trade, between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, including the manufacturing town of Houjie.
industrial city near Guangzhou to the southwest that includes the culinary destination of Shunde, which is also famous for its many criss-crossing waterways.
a pretty and rapidly-developing town on the Northeast edge of the region, popular for its nature and beaches.
port city that includes the county-level cities of Kaiping, Enping, Heshan and Taishan, the ancestral homelands of hundreds of thousands of Chinese-Americans and Chinese-Canadians.
is on the mainland next to Hong Kong. It was basically a group of fishing villages until the late 1970s. Then it was made a Special Economic Zone and developed incredibly rapidly; today it is a boom town, close to 20 million and still growing, and the main hub of China's tech industry.
home of Sun Yat-Sen and center for furniture trade, just inland of Zhuhai.
is on the mainland next to Macau, also a fishing village turned SEZ, 2.44 million in 2020, and is somewhat less rich and less brash than Shenzhen, but has better preserved its traditional dialects and culture. Stroll along the seaside or explore the well-preserved early 20th-century Doumen Old Street.
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