如何用英文介绍广州市特色

Guangzhou (Simplified Chinese: 广州; Traditional Chinese: 广州; Pinyin: Guǎngzhōu; Wade-Giles: Kuang-chou; Postal System Pinyin: Canton) is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. The native name of the city, in Cantonese, is 广州 (Jyutping: Gwong2 zau1). The city was formerly known internationally as Canton City or simply Canton, after a French language transliteration of the name of the province in Cantonese. It is a port on the Pearl River, navigable to the South China Sea. As of the 2000 census, the city has a population of 9.94 million, making it the most populous city in the province and the fifth most populous in China.

历史
History

It is believed that the first city built at the site of Guangzhou was Panyu (番禺; the locals pronounced this in Cantonese as Poon Yu) founded in 214 BC. The city has been continuously occupied since that time. Panyu was expanded when it became the capital of the Nanyue Kingdom (南越) in 206 BC.

The Han Dynas