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in full ?Chuang Autonomous Region of Kwangsi, ?Chinese (Wade-Giles) ?Kuang-hsi Chuang-tsu Tzu-chih-chü, ?(Pinyin) ?Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, ? autonomous region located in southern China. It is bounded by the Chinese provinces of Yunnan on the west, Kweichow on the north, Hunan on the northeast, and Kwangtung on the southeast, and by Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin on the southwest. It covers an area of 85,100 square miles (220,400 square kilometres). Nan-ning, the capital, is about 75 miles (121 kilometres) southwest of the regions geographic centre. The name Kwangsi dates to the Sung dynasty (960–1279), when the region was known as Kuang-nan Hsi-lu, or “Wide South, Western Route” (western half of all territory south of the Nan Mountains). The Yüan dynasty (1206–1368) contracted the name to Kwangsi when it created a province out of the western half. In 1958 the province was transformed into the Chuang Autonomous Region of Kwangsi—a step designed to help foster the cultural autonomy of the Chuang, or Chuang-chia, people, who constitute the largest minority living in the region. ? Physical and human geography The land Relief Kwangsi forms a tableland that descends in elevation from the north and northwest to the south and southeast. Elevations between 3,000 and 6,000 feet (900 and 1,800 metres) above sea level are reached at the edge of the Yunnan–Kweichow plateau in the northwest, the Chiu-wan and Feng-huang mountains in the north, and the Yüeh-cheng Mountains in the northeast. The greater part of the region is composed of hilly country lying at a height of between 1,500 to 3,000 feet. In the west, the Tu-yang Mountains rise to 6,500 feet. In the southeast, lowlands are situated at a height of between 300 and 1,500 feet. The predominance of limestone gives many parts of Kwangsi a spectacular type of landscape known as karst, in which pinnacles and spires, caves and caverns, sinkholes, and subterranean streams abound. Picturesque rocky hills, spires of grotesque propo