Guangzhou City (English: Canton, GuangZhou, Kwangchow) is the capital of Guangdong Province, the province's political, economic and cultural center, transportation hub in southern China. Guangzhou is located in Guangdong Province in south-central, northern margin of the Pearl River Delta. Guangzhou endangered South China Sea, near Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Region, China's southern gateway to the world.

Guangzhou is a hilly area of high terrain northeast, southwest low, north and northeast are mountainous central region is the hills, terraces, alluvial plain south of the Pearl River Delta. China's third major rivers - the Pearl River from Guangzhou, urban wear flows by. Guangzhou will host the Asian sporting events in 2010 - the 16th Asian Games.