Beihai
Beihai
北海市 Bwzhaij Pakhoi | |
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Beihai Silver Beach | |
Location of Beihai in Guangxi | |
| Coordinates (Beihai government): 21°28′52″N 109°07′12″E / 21.481°N 109.120°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Guangxi |
| Municipal seat | Haicheng District |
| Area | |
| 3,337 km2 (1,288 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 21 m (69 ft) |
| Population (2010 census) | |
| 1,539,300 | |
| • Density | 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 572,000 |
| • Metro | 405,600 |
| GDP | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 150.4 billion US$ 23.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 80,710 US$ 12,510 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 536000 |
| Area code | 779 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-GX-05 |
| Vehicle registration | 桂E |
| Website | www |
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"Beihai", as written in Chinese | |||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 北海 | ||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Pakhoi | ||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | north of the sea | ||||||||||||||||
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| Zhuang | Bwzhaij | ||||||||||||||||
| 1957 orthography | Bɯƨhaiз | ||||||||||||||||
Beihai (Chinese: 北海; pinyin: Běihǎi; Postal romanization: Pakhoi) is a prefecture-level city in the south of Guangxi, People's Republic of China. Its status as a seaport on the north shore of the Gulf of Tonkin 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 was 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.