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Qinzhou
Sign in to saveQinzhou (postal: Yamchow or Yen Chow, , Jyutping: Jam1 zau1 (Canton) /Ham1 zau1 (Local) ) is a prefecture-level city in south-central Guangxi, southern China, lying on the Gulf of Tonkin and having a total population of 3,302,238 as of the 2020 census whom 1,400,134 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Qinbei and Qinnan urban Districts. By the end of 2024, the total registered population of the city was 4,213,300.
Key facts
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- Qinzhou
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Qinzhou government buildings
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- Guangxi subdivisions - Qinzhou.svg
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- Location of Qinzhou City jurisdiction in Guangxi
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- China
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- Location in China
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- Country
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- People's Republic of China
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- Autonomous region
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- Guangxi
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
- Settlement.seat
- Qinbei District
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 10820.85
- Settlement.area_urban_km2
- 4750.2
- Settlement.area_metro_km2
- 4750.2
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- 2020 census
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Ginhcouh
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Guangxi
- Contains
- Pubei County
- Population
- 3302238
- Area
- 10878.7
- Elevation
- 12
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.qinzhou.gov.cn
- Image
- Qinzhou.jpg
- Dialing code
- 777
- Licence plate code
- 桂N
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- postal code
- 535000
- topic's main category
- Category:Qinzhou
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- Qinzhou
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Qinzhou
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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- Geography and climate
- Nature
- Economy
- Famous people
- Sister cities
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Qinzhou (postal: Yamchow or Yen Chow, , Jyutping: Jam1 zau1 (Canton) /Ham1 zau1 (Local) ) is a prefecture-level city in south-central Guangxi, southern China, lying on the Gulf of Tonkin and having a total population of 3,302,238 as of the 2020 census whom 1,400,134 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Qinbei and Qinnan urban Districts. By the end of 2024, the total registered population of the city was 4,213,300.
==History== The area originally belonged to Guangdong and was transferred to Guangxi in 1965. The city was originally a county Qinxian (postal: Yamhsien). From the beginning of the present era, Qinzhou (Wade-Giles: ''K'in-chou) was for many centuries "the center of Chinese overland trade with Indo-China".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qinzhou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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