Beihai
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Beihai 北海市 • Bwzhaij Si |
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| Prefecture-level city | |
Beihai Silver Beach
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 Location of Beihai in Guangxi |
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| Coordinates: 21°28′N 109°06′E / 21.467°N 109.100°E | |
| Country | China |
| Region | Guangxi |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 3,337 km2 (1,288 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 21 m (69 ft) |
| Population (2010 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 1,539,300 |
| • Density | 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 572,000 |
| • Metro | 405,600 |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 536000 |
| Area code(s) | (+86) 779 |
| Vehicle registration | 桂E |
| Website | http://www.beihai.gov.cn/ |
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"Beihai", as written in Chinese
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| Chinese | 北海 | ||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Pakhoi | ||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | north of the sea | ||||||||||||||||
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| Zhuang name | |||||||||||||||||
| Zhuang | Bwzhaij | ||||||||||||||||
| 1957 orthography | Bɯƨhaiз | ||||||||||||||||
| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Běihǎi |
| Wade–Giles | Pei3-hai3 |
| IPA | [pèixài] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Bāk hói |
| Jyutping | bak1hoi2 |
Beihai (Chinese: 北海; pinyin: Běihǎi) is a prefecture-level city in the south of Guangxi, People's Republic of China. The name of the city means "north of the sea" in Chinese, signifying its status as a seaport on the north shore of the Gulf of Tonkin, which has granted it historical importance as a port of international trade for Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan. Between the years 2006 and 2020, Beihai is predicted to be the world's fastest growing city. Beihai has a large shipyard, but most of the money generated in the city is derived from trade.
In addition, it governs the small islands of Weizhou and Xieyang, and is directly west of Leizhou Peninsula.
Beihai contains three districts and one county, which are subdivided into five urban sub-districts, 23 towns, 3 townships, 87 neighborhood committees, 343 village committees. (see also Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China#Levels)
After the 1876 Sino-British Treaty of Yantai, eight Western nations (the UK, US, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Italy, Portugal, and Belgium) set up consulates, hospitals, churches, schools, and maritime customs. Today, 15 of these western buildings remain in Beihai. It officially became an international tourist spot (旅遊對外開放城市) in 1982.
Vernacular languages of Beihai include Qin-Lian Yue, Hakka and Min. Mandarin is of increasing prevalence as a result of the Chinese government's general promotion of it.
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