Pingxiang 凭祥市 · Bingzsiengz Si | |
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)  Pingxiang Location in Guangxi | |
| Coordinates: 22°05′38″N 106°45′58″E / 22.094°N 106.766°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Guangxi |
| Prefecture-level city | Chongzuo |
| Area | |
| • Total | 650 km2 (250 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Pingxiang, Guangxi | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 凭祥市 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 憑祥市 | ||||||||||
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| Vietnamese name | |||||||||||
| Vietnamese | Thị xã Bằng Tường / Bằng Tường thị | ||||||||||
| Chữ Hán | 憑祥市 | ||||||||||
| Chữ Nôm | 市社憑祥 | ||||||||||
| Zhuang name | |||||||||||
| Zhuang | Bingzsiengz Si | ||||||||||
| 1957 orthography | Biŋƨsieŋƨ Si | ||||||||||
Pingxiang (凭祥市) is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chongzuo, in the southwest of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
Situation
The city covers an area of 650 km2 (250 sq mi). It is bordered in the north by Longzhou County and in the east by Ningming County, both in Chongzuo, and in the south and west by Vietnam's Lạng Sơn Province.
National Route 322 comes through the city centre, as does the railway which continues on to Hanoi; a high-speed expressway, now also international, passes nearby.
Zhennan Pass, site of the Battle of Bang Bo during the Sino-French War, is now named the "Friendship Pass" and is considered the gateway to Vietnam.
There are also plans to build a high-speed railway from Nanning to the Vietnamese border.[1]
Administration
Demographics
Pingxiang has a population of approximately 106,400 (83.5% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group, 2010).[2] Ethnic groups include Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao, Jing, and others.
Towns (Chinese: 镇, zhen)
Transportation
Rail
- Hunan–Guangxi Railway
Climate
| Climate data for Pingxiang (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 30.2 (86.4) | 36.1 (97.0) | 35.4 (95.7) | 38.6 (101.5) | 40.0 (104.0) | 37.7 (99.9) | 37.8 (100.0) | 37.1 (98.8) | 36.7 (98.1) | 34.6 (94.3) | 33.4 (92.1) | 30.8 (87.4) | 40.0 (104.0) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 17.8 (64.0) | 19.2 (66.6) | 22.1 (71.8) | 27.1 (80.8) | 30.7 (87.3) | 32.3 (90.1) | 32.6 (90.7) | 32.4 (90.3) | 31.1 (88.0) | 28.3 (82.9) | 24.4 (75.9) | 20.6 (69.1) | 26.6 (79.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 13.6 (56.5) | 15.4 (59.7) | 18.4 (65.1) | 22.9 (73.2) | 26.0 (78.8) | 27.7 (81.9) | 27.9 (82.2) | 27.4 (81.3) | 26.0 (78.8) | 23.0 (73.4) | 18.8 (65.8) | 15.0 (59.0) | 21.8 (71.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 10.7 (51.3) | 12.7 (54.9) | 15.7 (60.3) | 19.9 (67.8) | 22.6 (72.7) | 24.4 (75.9) | 24.6 (76.3) | 24.3 (75.7) | 22.7 (72.9) | 19.6 (67.3) | 15.2 (59.4) | 11.3 (52.3) | 18.6 (65.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 1.2 (34.2) | 2.6 (36.7) | 3.3 (37.9) | 9.6 (49.3) | 14.1 (57.4) | 15.5 (59.9) | 19.1 (66.4) | 21.6 (70.9) | 15.5 (59.9) | 9.1 (48.4) | 3.5 (38.3) | 0.1 (32.2) | 0.1 (32.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 37.6 (1.48) | 40.0 (1.57) | 63.1 (2.48) | 94.1 (3.70) | 163.3 (6.43) | 209.9 (8.26) | 203.8 (8.02) | 234.0 (9.21) | 140.0 (5.51) | 72.8 (2.87) | 54.9 (2.16) | 21.8 (0.86) | 1,335.3 (52.55) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 80 | 82 | 82 | 80 | 78 | 80 | 80 | 82 | 81 | 80 | 79 | 77 | 80 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center | |||||||||||||
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "High-speed railway to boost trade". Retrieved 2011-02-19.
- ^ Main data bulletin of the sixth national census in 2010/Chongzuo Statistics Bureau Archived 2013-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, 2011-07-21(in Chinese)