Weizhou () is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Haicheng District Haicheng (; za, Haijcwngz) is the seat of the city of Beihai, Guangxi, People's Republic of China. It has an area of and a population of 240,000 . Administrative divisions Haicheng District is divided into 7 subdistricts and 1 town: Subdist ...

Beihai Beihai (; 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 internation ...

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. The town comprises two

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. It has a total surface area of . It is defined in the west and northwest by the northern ...

islands:

Weizhou Island Weizhou Island () is a Chinese island in Beibu Gulf in the Gulf of Tonkin. The largest island of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Weizhou is west of Leizhou Peninsula, south of Beihai, and east of Vietnam. Administratively, it is part of Wei ...

and a smaller

Xieyang Island Xieyang Island () is a Chinese island in the Gulf of Tonkin, located southeast of Weizhou Island. Administratively, it, along with Weizhou Island, forms the town of Weizhou, in Haicheng District Haicheng (; za, Haijcwngz) is the seat of th ...

(斜阳岛), covering an area of and with a population of 15,900. It includes 2 neighborhood committees, 9 village committees. , it has 2 residential communities (社区) and 9 villages under its administration.

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Towns of Guangxi Beihai {{Guangxi-geo-stub

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