On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 2:57:28 PM UTC-7, David P. wrote:
> Guangzhou
>
> Located on the Pearl River about 75 mi NNW of Hong Kong &
> 90 mi N of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200
> years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road,
> and continues to serve as a major port and transportation
> hub, as well as one of China's 3 largest cities. Long the
> only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders,
> Guangzhou was captured by the British during the First Opium War.
> No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to
> other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to
> serve as a major transshipment port. Due to a high urban
> population and large volumes of port traffic, Guangzhou is
> classified as a Large-Port Megacity, the largest type of port-city
> in the world. As of 2020, Guangzhou Baiyun Int'l Airport, the
> major airport of Guangzhou, was the world's busiest airport by
> passenger traffic.
>
> Guangzhou is at the heart of the most-populous built-up metro area
> in Guangdong, which extends into the neighboring cities of Foshan,
> Dongguan, Zhongshan, Shenzhen and part of Jiangmen, Huizhou, Zhuhai
> and Macao, forming the largest urban agglomeration on Earth with
> approx. 47.6 million residents and part of the Pearl River Delta
> Economic Zone. Administratively, the city holds subprovincial
> status and is one of China's nine National Central Cities. In the
> late 90s and early 00s, nationals of sub-Saharan Africa who had
> initially settled in the Middle East and SE Asia moved in
> unprecedented numbers to Guangzhou in response to the 1997/98
> Asian financial crisis. The domestic migrant population from other
> provinces of China in Guangzhou was 40% of the city's total population
> in 2008. Together with Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, Guangzhou has
> one of the most expensive real estate markets in China. As of the
> 2020 census, the registered population of the city's expansive
> administrative area was 18,676,605 individuals (up to 47% from the
> previous census in 2010) whom 16,492,590 lived in 9 urban districts
> (all but Conghua and Zengcheng).
>
> In modern commerce, Guangzhou is best known for its annual Canton Fair,
> the oldest and largest trade fair in China. For three consecutive years
> (2013–15), Forbes ranked Guangzhou as the best commercial city in
> mainland China. Guangzhou is highly ranked as an Alpha- (global
> first-tier) city together with San Francisco and Stockholm. It is a
> leading financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region and ranks 21st
> globally in the 2020 Global Financial Centres Index. As an important
> international city, Guangzhou has hosted numerous international and
> national sporting events, the most notable being the 2010 Asian Games,
> the 2010 Asian Para Games, and the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. The
> city hosts 65 foreign representatives, making it the third major city
> to host more foreign representatives than any other cities in China
> after Beijing and Shanghai. As of 2020, Guangzhou ranks 10th in the
> world and 5th in China (after Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shenzhen)
> for the number of billionaire residents by the Hurun Global Rich List.
>
> Guangzhou is a major centre of research and innovation in the
> Asia-Pacific with a high level of scientific research output,
> ranking 14th globally, 6th in the Asia-Pacific and 4th in China
> (after Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing), and is home to many of china's
> most prestigious universities, including Sun Yat-sen University, South
> China U. of Technology, Jinan U., South China Normal U., South China
> Agricultural U., Guangzhou U., Southern Medical U., Guangdong U. of
> Technology, Guangzhou Medical U., Guangzhou U. of Chinese Medicine.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou

Yes, Canton, as it used to be known, is a great part of China, near HK. Now we call it Guangzhou, but we still say Cantonese.