- a variation of Guangdong.
Kwangtung
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It begins some 50 years before Maxine Kingston was born, some 30 years before the revolution, in the Hong family compound in a peasant village in Kwangtung Province.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
With a batch of 1,200 other prisoners, Chan was shipped into the mountains of northern Kwangtung to work twelve hours a day on a skimpy ration of rice.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one Kwangtung area, the commune provides one coffin per month, first come, first served.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kwangtung Radio announced that at Canton's Rubber Plant No. 7, "six former bourgeois owners" discharged during the Cultural Revolution have been rehired and assigned to administrative and production jobs.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little south of Kinchou lies a narrow neck of land connecting the Kwangtung promontory with the mainland.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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