Wikipedia's Guangdong page reports the total provincial population as 106 million so perhaps 63 million is the correct number. When the newspapers in China abou

Wikipedia's Guangdong page reports the total provincial population as 106 million so perhaps 63 million is the correct number. When the newspapers in China about 3 years ago first reported plans to merge the city administrations and infrastructure of Guangzhou, Dongguan,Shenzhen, and some nearby smaller cities, they estimated the population as 43 million. The extra 20 million must be from the non-urban areas in the region pictured on Wikipedia's Pearl River Delta page.