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Kuangtung

Kuangtung is the obsolete spelling of Guangdong.

Meaning of Guangdong

Proper noun

Guangdong

  1. A populous province of China, located on the southern coast. Capital: Guangzhou.
    • After the break-up of the 1924-1927 United Front, the Chinese Communist Party set up Soviets—liberated districts— in several parts of South China. One of the earliest liberated areas, organized in 1927-1928, was in the Hailufeng District of Guangdong Province.1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Women: Half of Heaven”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135

Questions about Kuangtung

What is Kuangtung the obsolete spelling of?
Kuangtung is the obsolete spelling of Guangdong.

Words near Kuangtung in the dictionary

  1. Kuangchow
  2. Kuangs
  3. Kuangshan
  4. Kuangsi
  5. Kuangtong
  6. Kuangtung
  7. Kuanhsi
  8. Kuans
  9. Kuanshan
  10. Kuantan
  11. Kuantien

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kuangtung (page history and authors); Guangdong (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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