Lingui District () is the county seat and
district
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administered by
Guilin
Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''; alternatively romanized as Kweilin) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the west bank of the Li River and borders Hunan to the nort ...
,
Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ...
, China, and located midway between Guilin and
Yangshuo. The district is mostly rural and hilly, marked by the same dramatic
karst topography
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for which Guilin is famous.
Tourist attraction
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Types
Places of natural ...
s include Snake World, Xiongsheng Tiger and Bear Village, and Crocodile Kingdom.
The district is also known as a center of ''luohan guo'' (''
Siraitia grosvenorii
''Siraitia grosvenorii'', also known as monkfruit or ''luohan guo'', is a herbaceous perennial vine of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is native to southern China. The plant is cultivated for its fruit extract, called mogrosides, which creat ...
'') production.
Olympic diver
Li Ting is a native of Lingui.
History
The ''
Shiji
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'' and ''
Hanshu
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'' state that around 104 BCE, the
Han first built fortifications west of the district of Lingui and established the province of
Jiuquan
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(in modern-day
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibe ...
) to facilitate a safe route to
the lands of the northwest along the
Silk Road
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. As a result, more and more envoys were sent through this territory to
Anxi,
,
Lixuan,
Tiaozhi, and
Shendu
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.
Administrative divisions
The district administers 8 towns, 1 township and 2 ethnic townships:
Towns:
*
Lingui Town (),
Liutang (),
Huixian
Huixian () is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xinxiang
Xinxiang ( ; postal: Sinsiang) is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China.
It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzh ...
(),
Liangjiang (),
Wutong (),
Sitang Town (),
Zhongyong Town
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(),
Nanbianshan Town (),
Township:
*
Chadong Township ()
Ethnic Townships:
Wantian Yao Ethnic Township (),
Huangsha Yao Ethnic Township ()
Footnotes
References
*Hill, John E. (2009) ''Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE''. BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. .
External links
Photos of Lingui scenery
Administrative divisions of Guilin
County-level divisions of Guangxi
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