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Guangxi

Guangxi is a relatively poor but highly scenic area in southern . It is known as the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, because of its large Zhuang minority population.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Yangshuo and Nanning.

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is a small town surrounded by karst mountains and beautiful scenery near . It has been a popular backpacker destination since the 1980s, and the surrounding area has excellent rock climbing opportunities which attract large groups of tourists.

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is the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south-west . It is a large, modern city and a transport gateway for travellers to and from .

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and the surrounding region are among the most scenic areas in China and the most popular tourist destinations both for Chinese travellers and the international backpacker set.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Guangxi and North Guangxi.

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is in Guangxi Province.

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is in Guangxi Province.

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is in Guangxi Province.

Guangxi

  • Type: State with 48,200,000 residents
  • Description: Provincial area of China organized in 1958 as an autonomous region for the Zhuang people
  • Also known as: “Guangxi Autonomous Area”, “Guangxi Autonomous Region”, “Guangxi Province”, “Guangxi Region”, “Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region”, “Guǎngxī zhuàngzú zìzhìqū”, “Kuang-hsi”, “Kuang-hsi Sheng”, “Kuang-hsi-chuang-tsu Tzu-chih-ch’ü”, “Kuanghsi”, “Kwang-hsi”, “Kwang-si”, “Kwanghsi”, “Kwangsi”, “Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region”, “Kwangsi Province”, “Province of Guangxi”, “Quang-si”, “Quangsi”, and “广西”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
  • Categories: autonomous region of China and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
24° north
Longitude of center
109° east
Population
48,200,000
Elevation
182 metres (597 feet)
Abbreviation
“桂”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080442
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1809867
Wiki­data ID
Q15176
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Guangxi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Guangxi”
  • Afrikaans: “Guangxi”
  • Arabic: “قوانغشي”
  • Armenian: “Գուանսի Չժոունի ինքնավար շրջան”
  • Armenian: “Գուանսի-Չժոունի ինքնավար շրջան”
  • Asturian: “Guangxi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quansi-Çjuan muxtar rayonu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quansi-Çjuan Muxtar Rayonu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quansi”
  • Balinese: “Guangxi”
  • Bashkir: “Гуанси-Чжуан автономиялы район”
  • Basque: “Guangxi”
  • Belarusian: “Гуансі-Чжуанскі аўтаномны раён”
  • Belarusian: “Гуансі”
  • Bengali: “কুয়াংশি”
  • Betawi: “Kengsé”
  • Bosnian: “Guangxi”
  • Breton: “Guangxi”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуанси-джуански автономен регион”
  • Burmese: “ကွမ်ရှီး (ကျွမ့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ)”
  • Burmese: “ကွမ်ရှီး”
  • Catalan: “Guangxi”
  • Cebuano: “Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوانگشی”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngxī shěng”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngxī Zhuàngzú zìzhìqū”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngxī Zhuàngzú Zìzhìqū”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngxī zìzhìqū”
  • Chinese: “Guǎngxī”
  • Chinese: “Guì”
  • Chinese: “Kńg-sai Chòng-cho̍k Chū-tī-khu”
  • Chinese: “广西”
  • Chinese: “广西僮族自治区”
  • Chinese: “广西壮族自治区”
  • Chinese: “廣西”
  • Chinese: “廣西僮族自治區”
  • Chinese: “廣西壯族自治區”
  • Chinese: “桂”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Guangşi Zhuang Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Guañşi Cuañ Muhtar Bölgesi”
  • Croatian: “Autonomna regija Guangxi naroda Žuang”
  • Croatian: “Guangxi”
  • Czech: “Kuang-si”
  • Danish: “Guangxi”
  • Dutch: “Guangxi”
  • Esperanto: “Guangŝjio”
  • Esperanto: “Gvanŝio”
  • Estonian: “Guangxi”
  • Finnish: “Guangxi”
  • French: “Guangxi”
  • French: “Kwangsi”
  • French: “Quang-si”
  • French: “Quangsi”
  • French: “Région autonome zhuang du Guangxi”
  • Galician: “Guangxi”
  • Gan Chinese: “广西壮族自治区”
  • Gan Chinese: “廣西”
  • Georgian: “გუანსი-ჯუანი”
  • Georgian: “კუანგსი-ჭუანგი”
  • German: “Autonomes Gebiet Guangxi der Zhuang”
  • German: “Guangxi”
  • German: “Kuangsi”
  • Greek: “Αυτόνομη Περιφέρεια Κουανγκσί Τσουάνγκ”
  • Greek: “Κουανγκσί”
  • Gujarati: “ગુઆન્ક્સી ઝુઆંગ ઓટોનોમસ પ્રદેશ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kóng-sî Chong-chhu̍k Chhṳ-chhṳ-khî”
  • Hebrew: “גואנגשי”
  • Hindi: “गुआंगशी झुएंग स्वायत्त प्रदेश”
  • Hindi: “गुआंगशी”
  • Hungarian: “Guangxi Zhuang”
  • Hungarian: “Guangxi”
  • Hungarian: “Kuanghszi-Csuang Autonóm Terület”
  • Hungarian: “Kuanghszi-Csuang”
  • Hungarian: “Kuanghszi”
  • Icelandic: “Guangxi”
  • Ido: “Guangxi”
  • Ido: “Regiono autonoma Guangxi”
  • Indonesian: “Guangxi”
  • Interlingua: “Guangxi”
  • Irish: “Guangxi”
  • Italian: “Guangxi”
  • Japanese: “广西壮族自治区”
  • Japanese: “広西チュワン族自治区”
  • Japanese: “広西チワン族自治区”
  • Japanese: “広西壮族自治区”
  • Japanese: “広西自治区”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾಂಗ್ಕ್ಸಿ ಝುವಾಂಗ್ ಸ್ವಾಯತ್ತ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Guansi-chjuan avtonom rayonı”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Guansi-shjuan avtonom rayoni”
  • Khmer: “ក្វាងស៊ី”
  • Kirghiz: “Гуаңси-Жуан өзэркин ооданы”
  • Kongo: “Guangxi Zhuang”
  • Korean: “광시 구”
  • Korean: “광시 자치구”
  • Korean: “광시 좡족 자치구”
  • Korean: “광시 좡족자치구”
  • Korean: “광시구”
  • Korean: “광시자치구”
  • Korean: “광시좡족자치구”
  • Kurdish: “Guangxi”
  • Latin: “Quansia”
  • Latvian: “Guansji Džuanu autonomais reģions”
  • Literary Chinese: “廣西”
  • Lithuanian: “Guangsi”
  • Lombard: “Guangxi”
  • Macedonian: “Гуангси”
  • Malagasy: “Guangxi”
  • Malay: “Guangxi”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുവാങ്ക്സി”
  • Malayalam: “ജി.ഇസെഡ്.എ.ആർ.”
  • Manx: “Guangxi”
  • Marathi: “क्वांग्शी”
  • Marathi: “गुआंगशी झुआँग स्वायत्त प्रदेश”
  • Mazanderani: “گوانگشی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guōng-să̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kńg-sai Cueng-cho̍k Chū-tī-khu”
  • Mingrelian: “გუანსი-ჯუანი”
  • Mirandese: “Guangxi”
  • Mongolian: “Гуанши”
  • Nepali: “गुआङ्सी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guangxi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guangxi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guangxi”
  • Norwegian: “Guangxi”
  • Novial: “Guangxi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guangxi”
  • Ossetian: “Гуанси-Чжуаны автономон район”
  • Persian: “گوانگشی”
  • Polish: “Kuangsi”
  • Portuguese: “Guangxi”
  • Portuguese: “Quancim”
  • Pushto: “ګوانګشي”
  • Quechua: “Guangxi”
  • Romanian: “Guangxi”
  • Russian: “Гуанси-Чжуанский автономный район”
  • Russian: “Гуанси”
  • Scots: “Guangxi”
  • Serbian: “Аутономна област Гуангси народа Џуанг”
  • Serbian: “Гуангси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guangxi”
  • Sindhi: “گئانگشي”
  • Sindhi: “گوانگزي زوانگ خودمختيار علائقو”
  • Sinhala: “ගුඅන්ක්සි සුආන්ග් ස්වාධීන කලාපය”
  • Slovak: “Kuang-si”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna pokrajina Guangši ljudstva Džuang”
  • Slovenian: “Guangši”
  • Spanish: “Guangxi”
  • Spanish: “Región Autónoma Zhuang de Guangxi”
  • Sundanese: “Guangxi”
  • Swahili: “Guangxi”
  • Swedish: “Guangxi”
  • Tagalog: “Guangxi”
  • Tajik: “Гуансӣ”
  • Tamil: “குவாங்ஷி”
  • Telugu: “గువాంగ్జీ జువాంగ్ అటానమస్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “กว่างซี”
  • Thai: “กว่างซีจ้วง”
  • Thai: “กุ้ย”
  • Thai: “เขตปกครองตนเองกว่างซีจ้วง”
  • Thai: “เขตปกครองตนเองชนชาติจ้วง กว่างซี”
  • Tibetan: “ཀོའོང་ཤི་ཀྲོང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།”
  • Turkish: “Guangşi Zhuang Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Guangxi Zhuang Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Uighur: “گۇاڭشى جۇاڭزۇ ئاپتونۇم رايونى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуансі-Чжуанський автономний район”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуансі”
  • Urdu: “گوانگشی”
  • Uzbek: “Guansi-chjuan muxtor rayoni”
  • Uzbek: “Guansi-Chjuan muxtor rayoni”
  • Uzbek: “Guansi-Chjuan Muxtor Rayoni”
  • Venetian: “Guangxi”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu tự trị dân tộc Choang Quảng Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu tự trị dân tộc Tráng Quảng Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng Tây”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guangxi”
  • Welsh: “Guangxi”
  • Western Armenian: “Կուանքսի Ժուանկ Ինքնավար շրջան”
  • Western Frisian: “Guangsy”
  • Western Frisian: “Guangxi”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوانگزی”
  • Wu Chinese: “广西壮族自治区”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣西”
  • Zhuang: “Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih”
  • Zhuang: “Gvangjsih”

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