喺19世紀，啲番鬼商人畫低嘅廣州英文地圖度，經用開咗粵式英文拼音來拼寫廣州啲地名。由於早期係冇統一嘅粵拼方案，所以就會出現咗同一個地方會有唔一致嘅譯名，不過都係幾隻雞腸字嘅分別，發音冇乜唔同嘅。去到20世紀，國民政府開始用郵政式拼音來統一大中華各地嘅英文譯名，似廣州呢啲非官話地方，就有另外頒佈特殊郵政式拼音，廣州地名（含珠三角）可以使用粵式郵政式拼音（同香港政府粵語拼音唔差幾多），好似黃沙就叫“Wongsha”（有啲地名拼寫慣係唔會空格）。正式英文翻譯度，「廣州市」成立前一輪就試過用“Canton Province”來指代廣東省，用“Canton”指代省城。「廣州市」建制出來之後，沿用返「Canton」做英文名稱，同時間係用咗「廣東省」（Kwong-tung Province）同埋「廣州府」（Kwong Chau Department）兩個行政單位構詞，愛來區別開返「Canton」。到咗後尾有咗“Kwangtung”，用得仲多過“Kwongtung”。2001年前仍喺香港營業嘅「廣東省銀行」，英文名就係“The Kwangtung Provincial Bank”。
In the 19th century, in the English map of Guangzhou drawn by a ghost merchant, some place names of Guangzhou were spelled with Cantonese English pinyin. Since there was no unified Cantonese spelling scheme in the early days, there would be inconsistent translations in the same place, but there were still a few chicken intestines that were different, and the pronunciation was not different. In the 20th century, the national government began to use postal pinyin to unify the English translation of names throughout Greater China, such as Guangzhou, these non-official places, there is another special postal pinyin, Guangzhou place names (including the Pearl River Delta) can use Cantonese postal pinyin (and the Hong Kong government Cantonese pinyin is not much different), like Huangsha is called Uranium Wongsha Mo (some place names are spelled usually not spaces). The official English translation here shows that "Canton Province" was used to refer to Guangdong Province and "Canton" to refer to the provincial capital in the first round before the establishment of "Guangzhou". After the establishment of "Guangzhou", the English name of "Canton" was continued to be used, and at the same time, the words "Kwong-tung Province" and "Kwong Chau Department" were used to distinguish "Canton". Later, there was a wisp of Kwangtung, which was used more than a wisp of Kwongtung. Until 2001, the "Guangdong Provincial Bank" was still operating in Hong Kong, and its English name was The Kwangtung Provincial Bank.