廣州呢度目前留低嘅、可查閱到嘅文獻記載歷史可以抄到去西元前214年。據載喺4000幾年前新石器時代，廣州度就係百越人（即係古代啲百越族土著）喺度四圍住嘅。前9世紀，百越人同啲長江中游嘅楚國人之間就有來往。前473年，越國畀楚國滅咗，跟著宰相公師瑜就帶著啲越國百姓走落來廣東，喺廣東起埋個南武城。前887年，南武城改設咗楚庭，成咗廣州（史載）最早嘅大寶號。春秋戰國時期，嶺南個稱呼，係包括咗兩廣同越南北部啲地嘅，當其時呢度啲住民就嗌南越（又稱南粵）族。前214年，秦始皇派兵馬食咗嶺南，喺嶺南整起殖民建制，設置咗南海、象郡、桂林三個郡，同時整咗個番禺城（今廣州）仲有啲縣。南海郡建制包括宜家廣東大部分地方，郡治喺番禺，南海郡第一個郡尉係畀任囂來做，呢個就係廣州喺大中華殖民建制歷史嘅第一次區劃設置。
The history of the documents left here in Guangzhou can be copied back to 214 B.C. It is reported that in the Neolithic Age more than 4,000 years ago, the Baiyue people (that is, the ancient Baiyue aborigines) lived around in Guangzhou. In the 9th century BC, there were contacts between the Baiyue people and some Chu people in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. In 473 BC, the Yue Kingdom was destroyed by the Chu State, and the Prime Minister Gongshi Yu led some Yue people down to Guangdong and set up a Nanwu City in Guangdong. In 887 BC, Nanwu City was rebuilt into Chu Ting and became the earliest Dabao in Guangzhou (Shizai). During the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the name of Lingnan included Liangguang and northern Viet Nam, and at that time, the residents here called the Nanyue (also known as Nanyue) ethnic group. In 214 BC, Qin Shi Huang sent soldiers and horses to eat Lingnan, and set up a colonial system in Lingnan, setting up three counties of Nanhai, Xiangjun and Guilin, and at the same time became Panyu City (now Guangzhou) and some counties. The Nanhai County system includes most of IKEA in Guangdong, and the county is governed in Panyu, and the first county lieutenant of Nanhai County is to be appointed to do it, which is the first time that Guangzhou has been set up in the history of the colonial establishment in Greater China.