(; Postal System Pinyin: Canton) is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. The native name of the city, in Cantonese, is 廣州 (Jyutping: Gwong2 zau1). The city was formerly known internationally as Canton City or simply Canton, after a French language transliteration of the name of the province in Cantonese. It is a port on the Pearl River, navigable to the South China Sea. As of the 2000 census, the city has a population of 9.94 million, making it the most populous city in the province and the fifth most populous in China.
"Canton" was the convenient French romanisation for Europeans who during the colonial period generally did not understand ideographic characters (see exonym and endonym). When the term "Canton" is pronounced in French it provides a closer oral rendering of the name in its original Cantonese. Guangzhou is a Mandarin pronunciation of the Han ideographs.
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