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Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (green), while Pearl River Delta Economic Zone area is indicated in red line, but only includes city areas of Zhaoqing and Huizhou.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GD-HK-MO, simplified Chinese: 粤港澳大湾区; traditional Chinese: 粵港澳大灣區) or simply Greater Bay Area (GBA), is a megalopolis, also known as the Pearl River Delta, consisting of 9 cities and 2 special administrative regions in south China. On 7 December 2016, the concept of the area was mentioned in the English version of the 13th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China.[1] On 13 April 2017, the heading of a piece of news released at the English.gov.cn website of the State Council adopted the name "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area".[2] After a few months, on 1 July 2017, the "Framework Agreement on Deepening Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macau Cooperation in the Development of the Bay Area" (深化粵港澳合作 推進大灣區建設框架協議) was signed in Hong Kong.[3]

The GBA consists of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Huizhou, and Zhaoqing, as well as Hong Kong and Macau.

Population centers

Cities Urban area pop.[4] District area pop.[4] Administrative area pop.[4] Census date
Guangzhou 10,641,408 12,701,948 12,701,948 2010-11-01
Shenzhen 10,358,381 10,358,381 10,358,381 2010-11-01
Dongguan 7,271,322 8,220,207 8,220,207 2010-11-01
Hong Kong 7,071,576 7,071,576 7,071,576 2011-06-30[5]
Foshan 6,771,895 7,197,394 7,197,394 2010-11-01
Zhongshan 2,740,994 3,121,275 3,121,275 2010-11-01
Huizhou 1,807,858 2,344,634 4,598,402 2010-11-01
Jiangmen 1,480,023 1,822,614 4,450,703 2010-11-01
Zhuhai 1,369,538 1,562,530 1,562,530 2010-11-01
Zhaoqing 784,642 1,397,152 3,916,467 2010-11-01
Macau 552,503 552,503 552,503 2011-08-12[6]

Transport

Bridge

Urban Rail

Urban rail transit (including metros, commuter and regional railways) is expanding very fast. Hong Kong MTR was the first one, its model has been chosen to other networks. The total length of all cities' metro lines is now 924,8 km.

Metro
Regional and commuter railways
Light rails and trams

Intercity Railway

Airports

See also

Chinese Wikisource has original text related to this article:

References

  1. ^ http://en.ndrc.gov.cn/newsrelease/201612/P020161207645765233498.pdf
  2. ^ english.gov.cn
  3. ^ info.gov.hk
  4. ^ a b c 国务院人口普查办公室、国家统计局人口和社会科技统计司编 (2012). 中国2010年人口普查分县资料. Beijing: China Statistics Print. ISBN 978-7-5037-6659-6.
  5. ^ Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong (2012). Hong Kong 2011 Census. Hong Kong: Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong.
  6. ^ Direcção dos Serviços de Estatística e Censos, Macau (2012). 15th Macau Census (2011). Macau: Direcção dos Serviços de Estatística e Censos.
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