Beihai

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thumb Beihai (Chinese: 北海; Pinyin: Běihǎi; Wade-Giles: Pei-hai), former romanization Pakhoi, is a prefecture-level city of Guangxi, China. Beihai means "north of the sea", meaning that the place is a seaport on the north shore of the Gulf of Tonkin. Beihai has a large shipyard and is reputed to still be a pirate habour.

Area: 3337 km², 957 km² urban centre
Population: 1450,000 (2001), 135,500 in urban centre (estimated 2006: 305,000)
Municipal seat: Haicheng District
Geographic coordinates: 108°50′45″ - 109°47′28″ North, 21°29′ - 21°55′34″ East

It governs the islands of Weizhou and Xieyang, and is north of Hainan Island.

Contents

1 Subdivision
2 History

2.1 Administration

3
4 Miscellanea
5 External link

Subdivision

Beihai contains 3 districts and one county, which are subdivided into five urban sub-districts, 23 towns, 3 townships, 87 neighborhood committees, 343 village committees. (see also Political divisions of China#Levels)

Haicheng District
Yinghai District
Tieshangang District
Hepu County

History

After the 1876 Sino-British Treaty of Yantai, eight Western nations (UK, US, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Italy, Portugal, and Belgium) set up embassies, hospitals, churches, schools, and maritime customs. Today, 15 of these western buildings remain in Beihai. It officially became an international tourist spot (旅遊對外開放城市) in 1982.

Administration

December 4, 1949: Beihai became a Communist Party of China town of Hepu County.
January 1951: a province-administered city of Guangdong
May 1951: entrusted to Guangxi
March 1952: officially administered by Guangxi
May 1955: Administered by Guangdong again
1856: reduced to a county-level city
1958: reduced to Beihai People's Commune of Hepu County
1959: county-class town
1964: restored to county-class city
June 1965: Administered by Guangxi again
October 1983: restored to prefecture-level city

Suva, Fiji
Gold Coast, Australia
Tulsa, US
Yatsushiro, Japan

Miscellanea

Beihai has a great higher high tides at September 1, with the tides being 5 metres (16 feet). Most ports have around 2 metres of higher high tide; Honolulu has 0.5 metre.

External link

[Official site]

Prefecture-level divisions of Guangxi

'''Prefecture-level cities:

List of Guangxi County-level divisions

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