Beihai
Beihai is a city with an urban population of 570,000 in Guangxi on the southwest coast of China. It is said to be the fastest growing city in the world.
- Type: City with 1,620,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China
- Also known as: “Baekhaij Si”, “Beihaja”, “Béyxey shehiri”, “Pak Hoi”, “Pak-hoi”, “Pakhoi”, “Pei-hai”, “Pei-hai-shih”, “베이하이”, and “北海鎮”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Former site of the British Consulate in Beihai and Former Site of Beihai Customs Building.
Former site of the British Consulate in Beihai
Historic building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qiaogang.
Beihai
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: South Guangxi, Guangxi, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.4845° or 21° 29′ 4″ north
Longitude
109.1166° or 109° 6′ 60″ east
Population
1,620,000
IATA airport code
BHY
UN/LOCODE
CN BHY
Open location code
7PHFF4M8+RJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Beihai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Beihai”
- Arabic: “بيهاي”
- Armenian: “Բեյհայ”
- Asturian: “Beihai”
- Basque: “Beihai”
- Bengali: “পেইহাই”
- Bulgarian: “Бейхай”
- Catalan: “Beihai”
- Cebuano: “Beihai”
- Chinese: “Běihǎi Shì”
- Chinese: “北海”
- Chinese: “北海市”
- Czech: “Pej-chaj”
- Danish: “Beihai”
- Dutch: “Beihai”
- Esperanto: “Beihai”
- Finnish: “Beihai”
- French: “Beihai”
- Gan Chinese: “北海市”
- German: “Beihai”
- Greek: “Μπεϊχάι”
- Gujarati: “બિહાઇ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pet-hói-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “בייהאי”
- Hindi: “बेहयाई”
- Hungarian: “Pejhaj”
- Igbo: “Beihai”
- Indonesian: “Beihai”
- Irish: “Beihai”
- Italian: “Beihai”
- Japanese: “北海市”
- Kannada: “ಬೈಹೈ”
- Kazakh: “Béýxaý”
- Kazakh: “Бэйхай”
- Kazakh: “بەيحاي”
- Kikuyu: “Beihai”
- Korean: “베이하이 시”
- Korean: “베이하이시”
- Kurdish: “Beihai”
- Latvian: “Beihai”
- Literary Chinese: “北海市”
- Lithuanian: “Beihajus”
- Macedonian: “Бејхај”
- Malagasy: “Beihai”
- Malay: “Beihai”
- Marathi: “बेइहाई”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Báe̤k-hāi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-hái-chhī”
- Moksha: “Бэйгай”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beihai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beihai i Guangxi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beihai”
- Norwegian: “Beihai”
- Persian: “بئیهای”
- Persian: “بیهای”
- Polish: “Beihai”
- Portuguese: “Beihai”
- Russian: “Бэйхай”
- Scots: “Beihai”
- Serbian: “Бејхај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beihai”
- Sinhala: “බෙහායි”
- Spanish: “Beihai”
- Swedish: “Beihai, Guangxi”
- Swedish: “Beihai”
- Tamil: “பேய்ஹை”
- Telugu: “బెహై”
- Thai: “เป๋ยไห่”
- Thai: “เป๋ย์ไห่”
- Turkish: “Beihai”
- Uighur: “بېيخەي شەھىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Бейхай”
- Urdu: “بیئہائی”
- Venetian: “Beihai”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Hải, Quảng Tây”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Hải”
- Waray (Philippines): “Beihai”
- Welsh: “Beihai”
- Western Panjabi: “بیئیہائی”
- Wu Chinese: “北海市”
- Yue Chinese: “北海”
- Yue Chinese: “北海市”
- Zhuang: “Baekhaij”
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