- Guangxi - Guangxi Urban population: 15.1 million
Nationalities: Zuang (over 90 percent of the Chinese Zhuang people inhabit this region), Han, Yao, Miao, Tong, Mulam, Maonan, Hui, Jing, Yi, Shui, and Gelo.
Area: 230,000 square kilometers
Coastline: 1,500 kilometers long
Climatic features: Subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate; long, hot summers; warm, short winters, conspicuous dry and reainy seasons; one of China's most rainy areas.
Average temperature: 6 - 16 C. in January, 25 - 29 C. in July.
Annual Average Rainfall: 1,200 - 1,800 mm in most areas, with higher precipitation on the seaward side of mountains; 80 percent of the rain falls from April to September.
Physical features: High in the northwest and low in the southeast; mountains on three sides; hills and plains in the middle and south; karst covers more than half of the region; drained by western branches of the Pearl River; faces the Beibu Bay.
Products: Rice, wheat, corn, potatoes, millet, sorghum, rapeseed, cassava, peanuts, sugar cane, tea, soybeans, ambary hemp, silk cocoons; tobacco; oranges, lychees, longans, bananas, pineapples; subtropical and tropical cash crops including rubber, coffee, pepper, sisal hemp, tea oil, and lemongrass; timber; aniseed, fennel oil, cassia bark; sea products; manganese, bauxite, salt, coal, plaster stone, sulphur, tin, phosphorus, antimony, walfrom, iron, gold.
Administrative divisions: 11 cities, 65 counties, and 12 autonomous counties.
Capital: Nanning
Neighboring Areas: Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangdong Provinces.
Major Cities: Nanning, Liuzhou, Guilin, Wuzhou, Beihai, Pingxiang, Bose.
Tourist Attractions: Karst hills in Guilin
Comments: The Beibu Guulf is a tropical fishing ground.
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