Guangxi is a minority autonomous region with Zhuang as the main body, and it is also the province (region) with the largest minority population in China. Guangxi is the region with the largest population of Yao nationality in China, accounting for about 60% of the total population of Yao nationality in China. It is the area with the largest mulao population in China, accounting for about 90% of the mulao population in China. Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County is the only Maonan Autonomous County in China and the largest Maonan inhabited area in China, with more than 70,000 people.
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1 1 The ethnic minorities living in Guangxi have their own languages, namely Zhuang, Jing, Yao, Miao, Dong, Mulao, Maonan, Jing, Yi, Shui and gelao language. With the use of water language, the population of Gelao language is decreasing and it has become an endangered language. There are six kinds of Chinese dialects: Cantonese, Southwest Mandarin (Guiliu Mandarin), Hakka dialect, Pinghua, Hunan dialect and Fujian dialect.
Guangxi is located in the south of the motherland, east longitude10428 ′ ~1204 ′, north latitude 20 54 ′ ~ 26 24 ′, and the Tropic of Cancer runs through the middle. It borders Guangdong Province in the east, Beibu Gulf in the south and Hainan Province across the sea, Yunnan Province in the west, Hunan Province in the northeast, Guizhou Province in the northwest and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the southwest. The land area of the administrative region is 237,600 square kilometers, and the jurisdiction area of Beibu Gulf is about 40,000 square kilometers.
Guangxi is located in the southeast edge of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the second step of China's topography, west of the hills of Guangdong and Guangxi, and south of Beibu Gulf. The northwest is high, the southeast is low, and it slopes from northwest to southeast. The mountains are continuous, the mountains are huge, the mountains and valleys alternate with each other, surrounded by mountains and plateaus, and the south-central part is hilly and flat, showing a basin shape, which is called "Guangxi Basin".
Guangxi has a long history, and there are many ancient human beings, ancient buildings, ancient cultural sites, ancient water conservancy projects, stone carvings, tombs and other ancient cultural relics and revolutionary struggle memorial sites. 20 16 On July 5th, China, the artistic and cultural landscape of Huashan rock painting in Zuojiang, Guangxi was listed in the World Heritage List. By July of 20 16, there were more than 40 key cultural relics protection units approved by the governments of the State Council and the autonomous region. National historical and cultural cities: Liuzhou, Guilin, Beihai, and many national key cultural relics protection units.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangxi