Guǎng Prefecture

{{Short description|Prefecture of Imperial China}}

{{distinguish|text=Guāng Prefecture in modern Anhui and Henan}}

{{infobox historic subdivision

|Name=Guǎng Prefecture (廣州)

|AltName={{Unbulleted list|Pan Prefecture (番州)|Nanhai Commandery (南海郡)|Xingwang Prefecture (興王府)}}

|Map=

|Start=

|End=1278 (Yuan dynasty)

|Replace=

|PopulationFirst=221,500{{harvnb|Xin Tang Shu|loc=[http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/新唐書/卷043上 ch. 43.]}}

|PopulationFirstYear=740s or 750s

|PopulationSecond=Unknown, 143,261 households{{harvnb|Song Shi|loc=[http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/宋史/卷090 ch. 90.]}}

|PopulationSecondYear=1070s or 1080s

|membership_title1=Circuit

|membership1={{Unbulleted list|Tang dynasty:|Lingnan Circuit|Song dynasty:|Guangnan Circuit|Guangnan West Circuit}}

}}

{{Chinese|t={{linktext|廣|州}}|s={{linktext|广|州}}|p=Guǎng Zhōu}}

Guǎngzhōu or Guǎng Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in the Pearl River Delta. Its administrative area contained parts of modern Guangdong, as well as both modern Hong Kong and Macau. Between 601 and 607 it was known as Pan Prefecture, between 742 and 758 as Nanhai Commandery, and in the 10th century (before 971) as Xingwang Prefecture (as the capital of Southern Han).{{harvnb|Shi|loc=p. 222.}}

The modern sub-provincial city Guangzhou, established in 1918, retains its name.