Canton

E55203

city historical name port city provincial capital

Canton is the historical Western name for Guangzhou, a major port city in southern China and the capital of Guangdong province.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Canton canonical	14

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city ⓘ historical name ⓘ port city ⓘ provincial capital ⓘ
associatedWithCuisine	Cantonese cuisine ⓘ
associatedWithLanguage	Cantonese ⓘ
CantonFairInstanceOf	trade fair ⓘ
capitalOf	Guangdong Province ⓘ surface form: Guangdong province
country	China ⓘ
formerNameOf	Guangzhou ⓘ
gainedProminenceInCentury	18th century ⓘ 19th century ⓘ
governingBody	Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government ⓘ surface form: Guangzhou Municipal Government
hasAlternativeName	Kwang-chou ⓘ surface form: Kuang-chou Kwang-chou ⓘ Port of Guangzhou ⓘ surface form: Kwangchow
hasClimate	humid subtropical climate ⓘ
hasEconomicRole	financial center ⓘ logistics hub ⓘ manufacturing center ⓘ
hasFunction	commercial center ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ
historicallyImportantFor	foreign trade with China ⓘ maritime trade ⓘ
historicalNameFor	Guangzhou ⓘ
historicalRole	sole legal Chinese port for Western trade before the First Opium War ⓘ
hosts	Canton Fair ⓘ
isExonymFor	Guangzhou ⓘ
isMajorCityIn	southern China ⓘ surface form: South China
isMajorPortOn	South China Sea ⓘ surface form: South China Sea trade routes
linkedTo	Indian Ocean trade network ⓘ surface form: Silk Road maritime routes
locatedIn	Guangdong Province ⓘ surface form: Guangdong province
locatedInCountrySubdivision	China ⓘ surface form: People's Republic of China
locatedInRegion	southern China ⓘ
locatedOnRiver	Pearl River ⓘ
modernName	Guangzhou ⓘ
notableEvent	Ming and Qing Chinese maritime trade restrictions ⓘ surface form: Canton System of trade Anglo-Chinese War ⓘ surface form: First Opium War Opium Wars ⓘ surface form: Second Opium War
partOf	Pearl River Delta ⓘ surface form: Pearl River Delta metropolitan region
portType	seaport ⓘ
romanizationSystem	Postal romanization ⓘ non-standard English exonym ⓘ
timeZone	China Standard Time ⓘ
usedInLanguage	English ⓘ French ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Guangzhou → formerName → Canton ⓘ

Guangdong Province → historicalName → Canton ⓘ

Treaty of Nanking → openedPort → Canton ⓘ

Canton Campaign → location → Canton ⓘ

British concession in Canton → locatedIn → Canton ⓘ

British opium trade in China → tookPlaceIn → Canton ⓘ

Lin Zexu → placeOfActivity → Canton ⓘ

Asiatisk Kompagni → operatedIn → Canton ⓘ

Asiatisk Kompagni → usedPort → Canton ⓘ

Canton, China → alsoKnownAs → Canton ⓘ

subject surface form: Guangzhou

Kwang-chou → historicalNameInTheWest → Canton ⓘ

Kwang-chou → historicalRomanization → Canton ⓘ

Hankou–Canton Railway → endPoint → Canton ⓘ

Hankou–Canton Railway → connectsCity → Canton ⓘ