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Guangzhou has a few beautiful and legendary nicknames, huacheng
(the Flower City), Yangcheng (the Goat City) and Suicheng (the Rice-ear
City).
Guangzhou is a civilized ancient city. It is 2,100 years old, the
same age as the world-renowned ancient cultural city Rome of Italy.
A modern city in China, Guangzhou is the political, economic, educational,
cultural as well as scientific and technological center in South
China. It is also a tourist city. Being a big city, Guangzhou totals
7547 square kilometres with a population of some 6.56 million. Under
its administration are four county-level cities of Huadu, Conghua,
Zengcheng and Panyu and eight districts: Yuexiu, Dongshan, Haizhu,
Litchi, Tianhe, Fangcun and Whampu. It is a well-known hometown
of the overseas Chinese. About 500,000 countrymen from here are
residing in some 90 countries and regions abroad.
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