Showing posts with label Canton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canton. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
50 Cities of the World #32 Canton
China is big...that kind of big only surpassed by huge-big Russia. And that's why we keep on travelling through China to visit one more city.
This time we visit Canton, which is better known as Guangzhou.
I've always heard talking about Canton as a region in China not a city, and here's why:
"The English name "Canton" derived from Portuguese Cantão[28] or Cidade de Cantão,[29] a muddling of dialectical pronunciations of "Guangdong"[30][31] (e.g., Hakka Kóng-tûng). Although it originally and chiefly applied to the walled city, it was occasionally used in English in reference to Guangdong by mistake."
Because we were everywhere in the world lol
Seeing the card picture and reading the description something is off. Because the card back talks about a great wall around the city but it is not pictured in the figure. You can only see rustic buildings and those characteristic sail boats. But it seems quite a view.
Visit the city's wiki page here.
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