Xingyi () is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

administered by the

Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (; Buyei: ''Qianfxiynanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz Ziqziqzouy''; Hmu: ''Qeef Xib Naif Dol Yat Dol Hmub Zid Zid Zeb''), is an autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, bordering G ...

, in the southwest of

Guizhou Province Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to ...

, China.

Geography

The city has an area of 2911 square kilometers, and a population of 784,032 as of 2010. It is under the administration of the

Transportation

Xingyi is served by the

Nanning–Kunming Railway The Nanning–Kunming railway, or Nankun railway (), is a single-track electrified railway in Southwest China between Nanning and Kunming, provincial capitals, respectively, of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province. The railway was b ...

and by the

Xingyi Wanfenglin Airport Xingyi Wanfenglin Airport () is a class 3C airport serving the city of Xingyi in Guizhou province, China. It was opened in 2004. The airport is located 7 kilometers from the city center, and 15 kilometers from Wanfenglin National Geopark. Origin ...

Biodiversity hotspot

Based on

Red Data Book The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biolog ...

listed endangered species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, Xingyi is one of nine vertebrate

biodiversity hotspot A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation. Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in ''The Environmentalist'' in 1988 and 1990, after which the c ...

s of China.

Climate

External links

Xingyi government website

References

{{authority control 01 County-level divisions of Guizhou Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture