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Guizhou

American  
[gwee-joh] / ˈgwiˈdʒoʊ /

noun

Pinyin.
  1. a province in southern China. 67,181 sq. mi. (173,999 sq. km). Guiyang. Also Kweichow

  2. former name of Fengjie.


Guizhou British  
/ ˈɡweɪˈdʒəʊ /

noun

  1. a province of SW China, between the Yangtze and Xi Rivers: a high plateau. Capital: Guiyang. Pop: 38 700 000 (2003 est). Area: 174 000 sq km (69 278 sq miles)

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This corner of the southwest province of Guizhou produces one in every seven of the instruments sold worldwide.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

So Wang travelled to Guiyang, a city in the southwestern province of Guizhou, in the hope of finding his soulmate.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

It provides a steady supply of gas to China’s southern provinces including Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangdong and Fujian.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 26, 2025

Not far from Return Home Hunan, new restaurants offer food from three southern Chinese provinces: There’s the Guizhou rice noodles place, the Guangxi river snail noodles shop and stinky tofu from the province of Hunan.

From New York Times Jun. 20, 2024

An online post from Guizhou province television citing unnamed authorities said that two had died and 23 people were injured.

From Seattle Times May 7, 2024

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