Under the direct jurisdiction of Guangzhou City there are 10 districts and two county-level cities, it has 82 sub-district offices and 78 towns. Guangzhou has a land area of 7,434.4 square kilometers and a population of more than 6,850,000 with a daily average floating population of more than 1,820,000.
The main physical feature of Guangdong is that the land is higher in the northeast and lower in the southwest. Guangzhou leans against the Jiulian Mountains in the north, Luofu Mountain in the west, Qingyun Mountain in the east, and the Jiulian-Nankun Mountain range in the middle. It faces the Lingding Sea in the south. The Conghua Spring, Baiyun Mountain and the Pearl Delta make the city a most beautiful municipality in south China.
Qu Dajun, a famous poet in theQing Dynasty(1644-1911), once wrote a poem to show the beauty of the city: the five mountains in the north and the sea in the south make the city a heaven on earth. Indeed, with a mild temperature and a variety of flowers all year, Guangzhou can really match its name as a City of Flowers.
With a civilization of more than 2,800 years, Guangzhou has a splendid culture. Ever since the Sui, Tang, andFive Dynastiesperiod (581-960), Guangzhou had been a famous port. In the Song Dynasty (960-1279), it was ranked as the top port of the whole country. Guangzhou has become a comprehensive modern municipality through 2,000 years of development and evolution.
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