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[melehuna]

I don't wish to stir up a discussion, or be a nay-sayer, Viking and Sly. For what it's worth, I remember when Solomon said 50 million, and one of us asked if that was the greater metro area, and he said yes. It didn't make sense to me, and I repeated "fifty million?" -- to which he said yes. I think he may have been a) tired and was saying -- or it sounded like -- "fifty" instead of "fifteen" because English is a second language, or b) thinking about and responding to discussion about Leone's market size, which might well be 50 million people. I then asked Anthony for clarification about the population of the Guangzhou greater metropolitan area and he told me 15-18 million.

From Guangzhou, we drove for 3 or 4 hours to reach Zhongshan, then another few hours to Jiangmen and Enping, then a few more back to Guangzhou, and traversed a lot of agricultural and aquaculture land en route. Those cities are closer to Hong Kong and Macau than they are to Guangzhou.

Here's the most recent population breakdown I found for Guangdong province:
http://www.citypopulation.de/China-Guangdong.html

And here's a page I wish I had read before my trip (although I did learn most of the info from other sources). It shows the districts that comprise Guangzhou and lists two other independent cities that are now considered part of the metro area. Their total population doesn't approach half of the total population of Guangdong province.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Guangzhou