Pingxiang, Guangxi

Pingxiang, Guangxi
Pingxiang, Guangxi
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	凭祥市
Traditional Chinese	憑祥市
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Píngxiáng Shì
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	pang4 coeng4 si5
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 · *Bingzsiengz Si*
Pingxiang 凭祥市 · Bingzsiengz Si
County-level city
	Pingxiang Location in Guangxi
	Coordinates: 22°05′38″N 106°45′58″E / 22.094°N 106.766°ECoordinates: 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 (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)[]

(Chinese: 凭祥)
(Chinese: 上石)
(Chinese: 夏石)
(Chinese: 友谊)

Transportation[]

Rail[]

Hunan–Guangxi Railway

Climate[]

Climate data for Pingxiang (1981−2010)
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

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)

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[1] "High-speed railway to boost trade". Retrieved 2011-02-19.

[2] 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)

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