Why is Guangxi called Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region?

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is equivalent to a provincial administrative unit, and autonomous region is a type of administrative division, which is equivalent to a provincial administrative unit in China.

Autonomous region is a national autonomy right based on places where ethnic minorities live in compact communities, establishing corresponding organs of self-government, exercising autonomy, and letting ethnic minorities be masters of their own affairs and manage local affairs within their own ethnic groups. Guangxi is the region with the largest minority population in China, so the autonomous region system is implemented.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Lingnan was called the land of Baiyue, and Guangxi was a part of Baiyue. In 2 14 BC, the Qin Dynasty conquered Baiyue and set up Guilin County, Nanhai County and Elephant County in Lingnan. Now most of Guangxi belongs to Guilin County and Xiang County, so Guangxi is called "Gui".

The name of Guangxi comes from two sources. One is that in the third year of Xian Tong (862), Lingnan Road was divided into east and west roads, taking the management of Lingnan West Road as our era and becoming a first-class independent administrative region. In addition, the administrative unit established in the Song Dynasty-"Guangnan West Road", hereinafter referred to as "Guangxi Road"; The second is named after the ancient place name "Guangxin". Guangdong and Guangxi are bounded by Guangxin, with Guangdong in the east and Guangxi in the west.

This is the origin of the name Guangxi. 1363, Guangxi was established as a province, which was the beginning of the establishment of Guangxi as a province. During the Republic of China, Guangxi followed the Qing system and established a province. 1March, 958, Guangxi Province was changed to "Guangxi Yi Autonomous Region", 19651October, and "Guangxi Yi Autonomous Region" was renamed as "Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region".

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I. Location and background

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.

Second, the terrain.

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".

Generally speaking, it is a hilly basin landform, which is divided into six categories: mountains, hills, terraces, plains, rocky mountains and water surfaces. The mountainous area is mainly Zhongshan, which is more than 800 meters above sea level, followed by low mountains, accounting for about 39.7% of the total land area of Guangxi. Hills with an altitude of 200 ~ 400 meters account for10.3%; The landforms below 200 meters above sea level include valleys, valley plains, piedmont plains, deltas and low plateaus, accounting for 26.9%; The water surface only accounts for 3.4%.

The middle part of the basin is divided by two arc mountains, the outer arc forms the central Guangxi basin with Liuzhou as the center, and the inner arc forms many small and medium-sized basins such as Youjiang, Wuming, Nanning, Yulin and Lipu. There are two main types of plains: river alluvial plains and dissolved plains. River alluvial plains include Jiang Xun Plain, Yujiang Plain, Binyang Plain and Nanliu River Delta, with the largest Jiang Xun Plain covering 630 square kilometers.

Karst landforms in Guangxi are widely distributed, concentrated in southwest, northwest, central and northeast Guangxi, accounting for about 37.8% of the total land area, and the development types are rare in the world.

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