Baise
Baise
百色市 • Bwzswz Si•Singz Baksaek | |
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Baise in 2013 | |
Location of Baise in Guangxi | |
Baise Location in China | |
| Coordinates (Baise municipal government): 23°54′11″N 106°37′08″E / 23.903°N 106.619°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Guangxi |
| County-level divisions | 1 district 1 county-level city 9 counties 1 autonomous county |
| Municipal seat | Youjiang District |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Zhou Yijue (周异决) |
| Area | |
| 36,252 km2 (13,997 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 137 m (449 ft) |
| Population (2019) | |
| 4,226,800 | |
| • Density | 116.59/km2 (301.98/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,383,400 |
| GDP | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 156.9 billion US$ 24.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 43,892 US$ 6,803 |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 530000 |
| Area code | 0776 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-GX-10 |
| Licence plate prefixes | 桂L |
| Website | baise |
| Baise | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Chinese | 百色 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | hundred colours | ||||||
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| Zhuang name | |||||||
| Zhuang | Baksaek | ||||||
| 1957 orthography | Bɯƨsɯƨ | ||||||
Baise (Chinese: 百色; pinyin: Bǎisè, Bósè; local pronunciation: paːk˧˥ ɬɐk˥), or Bose, is the westernmost prefecture-level city of Guangxi, China bordering Vietnam as well as the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan. At the end of 2024, the registered population of the city was 4,214,900, and the resident population of the city was 3,464,700, of which the urban resident population was 1,636 million, accounting for 47.22% of the resident population (the urbanization rate of the resident population).
The name is from Youjiang Zhuang Baksaek, meaning "in, or blocking, a mountain pass". The name Bwzswz is the Zhuang transliteration of the Chinese name.