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By Jessie Yeung, Wayne Chang

Hong Kong (CNN) — Nearly two million people in southern China have been evacuated as a powerful typhoon hurtles into one of the world’s most densely populated coasts, having already unleashed deadly flooding in Taiwan.

Typhoon Ragasa, which a few days ago was the strongest storm on earth so far this year, brought finance hub Hong Kong and swathes of southern China to a standstill on Wednesday, after barreling through remote islands in the Philippines and mountainous regions of Taiwan.

Packing hurricane-force winds, the storm has left a trail of damage, triggering landslides, flooding and huge waves, and is now bearing down on China’s Guangdong province, where massive cities like Shenzhen and Guangzhou are located.

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