秦末大亂，前204年，南海郡尉趙佗乘機兼併埋桂林郡同象郡，佔據咗嶺南（今廣東、廣西大部、越南北部），建立疆土“東西萬餘裏”嘅南越國，定都番禺（廣州）。係嶺南地區畀征服後第一次獨立建制。
In the chaos at the end of Qin, in 204 BC, Zhao Tuo, the captain of Nanhai County, took the opportunity to annex Guilin County and Xiang County, occupied Lingnan (present-day Guangdong, most of Guangxi, and northern Viet Nam), and established the Nanyue State with a territory of more than 10,000 miles east and west, with the capital Panyu (Guangzhou). This was the first time that the Lingnan region was established independently after its conquest.