Beihai, the Glossary
Beihai (Postal romanization: Pakhoi) is a prefecture-level city in the south of Guangxi, People's Republic of China.[1]
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- Cities in Guangxi
- Prefecture-level divisions of Guangxi
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
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Autonomous regions of China
The autonomous regions are one of four types of province-level divisions of China.
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Beihai Fucheng Airport
Beihai Fucheng Airport is an airport serving the city of Beihai in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
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Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.
Cantonese people
The Cantonese people or Yue people, are a Han Chinese subgroup originating from or residing in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (collectively known as Liangguang or, with other regions, Lingnan), in southern mainland China.
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Chefoo Convention
The Chefoo Convention, known in Chinese as the Yantai Treaty, was an unequal treaty between Britiain and Qing China, signed by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hongzhang in Zhifu (now a district of Yantai) on 21 August 1876.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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China Meteorological Administration
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) is the national weather service of the People's Republic of China.
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China National Highway 209
China National Highway 209 (G209) runs from Sonid Left Banner, Inner Mongolia to Beihai, Guangxi province.
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China National Highway 325
China National Highway 325 (G325, Guangnan Highway) runs west from Guangzhou, Guangdong towards Nanning, Guangxi.
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China Railway High-speed
China Railway High-speed (CRH) is a high-speed rail service operated by China Railway.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
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Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Chinese postal romanization
Postal romanization was a system of transliterating place names in China developed by postal authorities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Customs
Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.
Dianbai, Maoming
Dianbai District, alternately romanized as Tinpak, is an urban district of the prefecture-level city of Maoming in southwestern Guangdong Province, China.
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Eastern Min
Eastern Min or Min Dong (Foochow Romanized) is a branch of the Min group of the Chinese languages of China.
Fujian
Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.
Government of China
The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses.
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Guangxi
Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.
Guangzhou
Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.
Guilin
Guilin (Standard Zhuang: Gveilinz), formerly romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Beihai and Guilin are cities in Guangxi and prefecture-level divisions of Guangxi.
Guizhou
Guizhou is an inland province in Southwestern China.
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China.
Haicheng District
Haicheng (Haijcwngz) is the seat of the city of Beihai, Guangxi, China.
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Hakka Chinese
Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:,; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.
Hakka people
The Hakka, sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China and who speak a language that is closely related to Gan, a Han Chinese dialect spoken in Jiangxi province.
Hepu County
Hepu, alternately romanized as Hoppo, Hopu or Hop'u, is a county under the administration of Beihai City in southeastern Guangxi, China.
Hong Kong International Airport
Hong Kong International Airport is an international airport located on the island of Chek Lap Kok in western Hong Kong.
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Hubei
Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.
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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.
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Hunan
Hunan is an inland province of China.
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Island
An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.
ISO 3166-2:CN
ISO 3166-2:CN is the entry for China in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kra–Dai languages
The Kra–Dai languages (also known as Tai–Kadai and Daic), are a language family in mainland Southeast Asia, southern China, and northeastern India.
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Languages of China
There are several hundred languages in China.
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Leizhou Min
Leizhou or Luichew Min is a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Leizhou city, Xuwen County, Mazhang District, most parts of Suixi County and also spoken inside of the linguistically diverse Xiashan District.
Leizhou Peninsula
The Leizhou Peninsula, alternately romanized as the Luichow Peninsula, is a peninsula in the southernmost part of Guangdong province in South China.
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Lianzhou, Guangxi
Lianzhou is a town of Hepu County, Guangxi, China.
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Literal translation
Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence.
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Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Min Chinese
Min (BUC: Mìng-ngṳ̄) is a broad group of Sinitic languages with about 70 million native speakers.
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
Monsoon
A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.
Nanning
Nanning is the capital and largest city by population of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. Beihai and Nanning are cities in Guangxi and prefecture-level divisions of Guangxi.
People's commune
The people's commune was the highest of three administrative levels in rural areas of the People's Republic of China during the period from 1958 to 1983, until they were replaced by townships.
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Port
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.
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Postal codes in China
Postal codes in the People's Republic of China are postal codes used by China Post for the delivery of letters and goods within mainland China.
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Prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
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Qin–Lian Yue
The Qin–Lian language (Hamlim Jijin or Hamlim Jujin;; from the names of Qinzhou and Lianzhou) is a southern branch of Yue Chinese spoken in the coastal part of Guangxi, including 3 main cities: Beihai, Qinzhou, Fangchenggang, and four subject counties: Hepu, Pubei, Lingshan, Dongxing.
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
Renminbi
The renminbi (symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as Chinese Yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.
Shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired.
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Tanka people
The Tankas or boat people are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China who traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang and along the Yangtze river, as well as Hong Kong, and Macau.
Tieshangang District
Tieshangang District, is a district of the city of Beihai, Guangxi, China.
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Time in China
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time) based on the National Time Service Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences located in Mount Li, Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, even though the country spans five geographical time zones.
United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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Weizhou Island
Weizhou Island is a Chinese island in Beibu Gulf in the Gulf of Tonkin. Beihai and Weizhou Island are cities in Guangxi.
Xieyang Island
Xieyang Island is a Chinese island in the Gulf of Tonkin, located southeast of Weizhou Island.
Yinhai District
Yinhai District (Cantonese: Ngan Hoi; Yinzhaij Gih) is a district of the city of Beihai, Guangxi, China.
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Yue Chinese
Yue is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (collectively known as Liangguang).
Yuehai Yue
Yuehai is the main branch of Yue Chinese, spoken in the Pearl River Delta of the province of Guangdong, as well as Hong Kong and Macau.
Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
See also
Cities in Guangxi
- Baise
- Beihai
- Beiliu
- Cenxi
- Chongzuo
- Dongxing, Guangxi
- Fangchenggang
- Guigang
- Guilin
- Guiping
- Hechi
- Heng County
- Hengzhou, Guangxi
- Heshan, Guangxi
- Hezhou
- Laibin
- Liuzhou
- Nanning
- Pingguo
- Pingxiang, Guangxi
- Qinzhou
- Weizhou Island
- Wuzhou
- Yulin, Guangxi
Prefecture-level divisions of Guangxi
- Baise
- Beihai
- Chongzuo
- Fangchenggang
- Guigang
- Guilin
- Hechi
- Hezhou
- Laibin
- Liuzhou
- Nanning
- Qinzhou
- Wuzhou
- Yulin, Guangxi
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beihai
Also known as Bei Hai, Beihai City, Beihai, Guangxi, History of Beihai, Packhoi, Pak-Hoi, Pakhoi, Pei Hai, Pei-Hai, Peihai, .
, Qin–Lian Yue, Qing dynasty, Renminbi, Shipyard, Sichuan, Standard Chinese, Tanka people, Tieshangang District, Time in China, United States dollar, Weizhou Island, Xieyang Island, Yinhai District, Yue Chinese, Yuehai Yue, Yunnan.