"Kuang-tung" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 廣東／广东 (Guǎngdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-tung¹.",
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          "ref": "1887, Terrien de Lacouperie, Formosa Notes of MSS., Races and Languages, volume 19, London: Trübner and Co., page 450",
          "text": "42. The boat population of Canton, also called Tan-Ka otherwise Tan families,² is also known as Kün-lun slaves, and they are said to be connected with some native tribes in the north of the Kuang-tung province, consequently in proximity to the above Kün-lun mountains of Kuangsi.",
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          "ref": "1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 208",
          "text": "We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.",
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          "ref": "1967, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11",
          "text": "Were one to draw a profile of generalized altitudes of the landmass of Ling-nan and Kuei-chou Yun-nan in a southeast-northwest direction, the profile that emerges would represent a step-like formation from the sea to the Tibetan Plateau with five major \"steps.\" The first would represent the Kuang-tung lowlands below about 1500-feet.",
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          "text": "When Chinese from Fukien and Kuang-tung migrated to Taiwan, this warlike situation was obviously transplanted and was further aggravated by the even less efficient political control of the local government and the unique frontier conditions.",
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          "ref": "2003, Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth : From Prehistory to Global Crisis, University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 122, page 139",
          "text": "In the southern mountain region the mixed deciduous and evergreen broad-leafed forest were barely touched, and wild elephants and the rhinoceros roamed the malarial jungles of the province of Kuang-tung in the ninth century; but that was to change with migration from the north that reached a new momentum after the tenth century.",
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