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Guangzhou Yuexiu Library
Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road. The port of Guangzhou serves as a transportation hub for China's fourth largest city and surrounding areas, including Hong Kong. Guangzhou was captured by the British during the First Opium War and no longer enjoyed a monopoly after the war; consequently it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to serve as a major entrepôt. Following the Second Battle of Chuenpi in 1841, the Treaty of Nanking was signed between Sir Robert Peel on behalf of Queen Victoria and Lin Zexu on behalf of Emperor Xuanzong and ceded Hong Kong to the United Kingdom on 26 January 1841 after the agreement of the Convention of Chuenpi. Guangzhou is at the center of the Guangdong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou (other)
Guangzhou is a city in China's Guangdong Province. Guangzhou may also refer to: *Guǎng Prefecture (廣州), a historical prefecture in modern Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau, China *Guāng Prefecture (光州), a historical prefecture in modern Henan and Anhui, China *3048 Guangzhou, a main-belt asteroid *COSCO Guangzhou, COSCO ''Guangzhou'', a container ship *Guangzhou dialect, another name for Cantonese, particularly as spoken in Guangzhou *Guangzhou F.C., a professional football club in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China *Guangzhou Peninsula, a headland in Antarctica See also * Gwangju (other), Korean Hanja reading of "Guangzhou" * Canton (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
