1. A small administrative division of a country

1. Provide housing for (military personnel)
   - quarter, billet 
2. Divide into cantons, of a country

1. A city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
   - Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow

Derived forms: cantoned, cantoning, cantons

See also: cantonal, cantonment

Type of: accommodate, administrative district, administrative division, carve up, city, dissever, divide, lodge, metropolis, port, separate, split, split up, territorial division, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Cathay [archaic], China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China

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