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Canton

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Place nameCanton
Other namesKuang-tung, Kwang Tung, Kwangtung, Guangdong, Canton province
CountryZhonghua
Latitude23
Longitude113
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names

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Most foreign contact with 18th-century China was focused in this area; went to war with Britain over importation of Indian opium in 1841, resulted in cession of Hong Kong and Treaty of Nanking 1842; saw unrest during revolution in 1911; was occupied by Japan in 1938.
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