Guangdong is China’s most populated province, with a total of 126 million people. It’s also one of the very few provinces that have their own television and radio stations operated in their own language. This language, known as Cantonese, is so prolific that at the turn of the 20th century, Cantonese was considered to become China’s lingua Franca over Mandarin. As a southern Coastal Province, Guangdong is over-represented in the Chinese immigrant population abroad, particularly in the West. The Cantonese-speaking people are the face of China to the Western world. In the West, when you suggest getting Chinese food, you usually mean getting Guangdong cuisine. Similarly, if you watch a Chinese movie, especially a Kung Fu film, it’s likely to be in Cantonese. Guangdong has great ties to the outside world through culture, immigration, and trade, with Hong  Kong serving as the portal between China and the West.
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