2 1 The prefecture-level cities are: Guangzhou, Shaoguan, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhanjiang, Maoming, Zhaoqing, Huizhou, Meizhou, Shanwei, Heyuan, Yangjiang, Qingyuan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Yunfu.
These 20 county-level cities are Lechang, Nanxiong, Taishan, Kaiping, Heshan, enping city, Lianjiang, Leizhou, Wuchuan, Gaozhou, Huazhou, Xinyi, Sihui, xingning city, Lufeng, Yang Chun, yingde city, Lianzhou, Puning and luoding city.
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Guangdong, whose name evolved from Lingnan East Road and Guangnan East Road, is called "Guangdong" for short. Guangzhou, the provincial capital, is a coastal province at the southern tip of Chinese mainland. Located in the south of Nanling and on the coast of the South China Sea, it borders Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and faces Hainan across the sea.
The land area of Guangdong Province is 179800 square kilometers, accounting for about 1.87% of the national land area. Among them, the island area 1592.7 square kilometers, accounting for about 0.89% of the province's land area.
There are 759 islands with a coastal area of more than 500 square meters in the province (due to historical reasons, dongsha islands is controlled by the authorities of Taiwan Province Province), ranking third in China after Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.
There are also 163 1 reef opening and dry reef. The coastline of the whole province is 3368. 1 km. According to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that the territorial sea, continental shelf and exclusive economic zone are under the jurisdiction of coastal countries, the total sea area of the province is 410.9 million square kilometers.
194910 June 14, Guangzhou liberation; 10 year 10 On October 28th, Guangzhou Municipal People's Government was established; 165438+1October 6th, Guangdong Provincial People's Government was formally established. There are nine special zones in the province: Pearl River, Dongjiang River, Xijiang River, Beijiang River, Central Guangdong, South Road, Xingmei, Chaoshan and Qiongya. * * * governs 7 cities and 98 counties, and Guangzhou is a municipality directly under the central government.
From 65438 to 0952, Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City were led by Central South Management Committee, Beihai City and Qinzhou District were placed under Guangxi, and Huaiji County of Guangxi was placed under Guangdong.
1954, Guangdong province was directly led by the central government, and Guangzhou, which was originally directly under the central government, was placed under the jurisdiction of Guangdong province.
1955, the counties belonging to Beihai City and Qinzhou District in Guangxi were transferred to Guangdong Province and renamed Hepu District.
1965, Beihai and Hepu counties were placed under the jurisdiction of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
From 65438 to 0979, Baoan County, which originally belonged to Huiyang area, was changed to Shenzhen City, and Zhuhai County, which originally belonged to Foshan area, was changed to Zhuhai City, all of which were directly administered by the province. Guangdong Province is directly under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou, Haikou, Shantou, Zhanjiang, Maoming, Foshan, Jiangmen, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shaoguan and other cities 10, which is divided into seven regions including Shaoguan, Huiyang, Meizhou, Shantou, Foshan, Zhanjiang and Zhaoqing, and Hainan Administrative Region and Hainan Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. * * * governs 92 counties in 14 city.
198 1 set up offices in Xisha, Nansha and zhongsha islands, which are directly led by Hainan administrative region.
1983, the new system of city governing county and township governing village will be implemented.
1988, the central government divided Hainan administrative region from Guangdong province and established Hainan province. In the same year, Guangdong began to cancel the regional setting and set up 18 prefecture-level cities (later increased to 2 1 prefecture-level city), and fully implemented the system of prefecture-level cities governing counties and townships governing villages.
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