2005 New Guangdong Province Map Album

Author: Zhang Hong, Editor-in-Chief
Publisher:
Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: China's Provincial Series Atlas:
- Sequence Maps: Includes maps of administrative divisions, topography, transportation, and tourism.
- City and County Maps: The main part of the atlas. Each map covers one or more counties, providing detailed information on administrative divisions, transportation, and tourism, accurately reflecting the distribution of towns and townships after the merger of rural and township administrative divisions in each province. Accompanied by brief textual introductions, making it (rich in both text and images).
- Urban Maps: Provide a more detailed reflection of major cities' streets, transportation, service industries, medical and health care, cultural and educational facilities, financial services, communications, and tourism.
This series of atlases adopts the latest achievements of China's administrative division demarcation, featuring accurate provincial boundaries, rich map content, and providing high-quality services to readers in the form of one atlas per province (or autonomous region).
The China Map Publishing House · Map Development Center is the specialized department of the China Map Publishing House responsible for compiling and publishing reference maps. Its business scope includes compiling and publishing the following types of maps:
- Large and medium-sized thematic map collections.
- Practical reference maps of the country and its provinces and regions.
- Practical reference maps of the world and its countries.
- Various transportation and tourism maps.
- Various foreign-language maps.
Guangdong Province, abbreviated as "Yue," is located south of the Nanling Mountains and on the coast of the South China Sea. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, it was part of the Baiyue (Yue) region. The Qin Dynasty established the Donghai Commandery, which was part of the Lingnan Circuit during the Tang Dynasty, the Eastern Circuit of Guangnan during the Song Dynasty, and most of it was under the Jiangxi Provincial Circuit during the Yuan Dynasty. It became Guangdong Province during the Qing Dynasty. Currently, it administers 21 prefecture-level cities, 33 county-level cities, 43 counties, and 3 autonomous counties. Nearly 30 cities and counties are open to the outside world. The province covers an area of over 180,000 square kilometers and has ethnic groups such as the Han, Yao, Zhuang, Hui, Manchu, and She. The provincial capital is Guangzhou.
Guangdong has a long coastline and is dotted with hills, accounting for about two-thirds of the province's total area. The northern part of the province is the Nanling Mountains, and it includes famous scenic mountains such as Luofu, Xiqiao, Dinghu, and Danxia. The coastal areas feature the Pearl River Delta and the Chaoshan Plain. The Pearl River system originates from the West River, North River, and East River. The Leizhou Peninsula in the southwest is tropical, while the rest of the province is basically subtropical monsoon climate. Except for the mountainous northern part, there is no snow or ice that melts all year round, with an annual precipitation of over 1,500 millimeters. Typhoon rains occur between summer and autumn.