Tianhe District is one of the ten districts in Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, People's Republic of China

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China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. In Chinese, the name Tianhe means a river in the sky. It is bordered by Yuexiu District on the west, Baiyun

Baiyun

Baiyun District is one of the districts of Guangzhou.Baiyun is the place where the former Guangzhou airport, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, is located. The new airport, though still called Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, is located in Huadu District.-External links:**...

 District on the north and Huangpu

Huangpu District, Guangzhou

Huangpu District is one of the ten districts in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China.-History:...

 District on the east. Haizhu

Haizhu

Haizhu District is one of the ten districts in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China.-History:Haizhu District was the largest in area along with Liwan, Yuexiu and Dongshan Districts, and the least dense of the four old districts in Guangzhou before the city expanded...

 District is on its south, though they are separated by the Zhujiang River.

Tianhe became a district in the 1980s as the city expanded its size. Back then, it was east of another district called Dongshan (which was merged into Yuexiu in 2005) and it was more suburban like if not rural like.