Pingxiang is a county-level city

County-level city

A county-level city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions....

 in the municipal region

Prefecture-level city

A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

 of Chongzuo

Chongzuo

Chongzuo is a prefecture-level city in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is home to one of China’s largest Zhuang populations.- Geography and climate :...

 in southern China

China

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's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Guangxi

Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...

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Situation

The city covers an area of 650 km². It is bordered in the north by Longzhou County

Longzhou County

Longzhou is a county in the Guangxi province of China, on the border with Vietnam . It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city Chongzuo....

  and in the east by Ningming County

Ningming County

Ningming County is a county of Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of Chongzuo city....

 , both in Chongzuo, and in the south and west by Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

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National Route 322

China National Highway 322

China National Highway 322 runs from Hengyang, Hunan to Friendship Gate, Guangxi. It is 1039 kilometres in length and runs southwest from Hengyang towards Friendship Gate, which is on the China-Vietnam border.-Route and distance:...

 comes through the city centre, as does the railway which continues on to Hanoi

Hanoi

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; a high-speed expressway, now also international, passes nearby.

Zhennan Pass, site of the Battle of Bang Bo during the Sino-French War

Sino-French War

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, is now named the "Friendship Pass" and is considered the gateway to Vietnam.

There are also plans to build a high-speed railway

Nanning-Pingxiang High-Speed Line

The Nanning-Pingxiang High-Speed Line is a planned high-speed railway between Pingxiang and Nanning in southern China. The route would connect to railways in northern Vietnam, and this line is seen as the first stage of a high-speed network reaching as far as Singapore.Rather than being a central...

 from Nanning

Nanning

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 to the Vietnamese border.

Demographics

Pingxiang has a population of approximately 100,000. Ethnic groups include Zhuang, Han

Han Chinese

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, Yao

Yao people

The Yao nationality is a government classification for various minorities in China. They form one of the 55 ethnic minority groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where they reside in the mountainous terrain of the southwest and south...

, Miao

Hmong people

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, Jing, and others.

Towns

• Baiyun
• Shangshi
• Xiashi
• Youyi