Population: 44.4 million.
Urban population: 15.1 million.
Nationalities: Zhuang (over 90 percent of the Chinese Zhuang people inhabit this region), Han, Yao, Miao, Tong, Mulam, Maonan, Hui, Jing, Yi, Shui and Gelo

Area: 230,000 square kilometers
Coastline : 1,500 kilometers

Climatic features: subtropical, humid, monsoon climate; long, hot summers; warm, short winters; conspicuous dry and rainy seasons; one of China's most rainy areas

Average temperature: 6^oC to 16^oC in January, 25^oC to 29^oC in July

Annual average rainfall: 1,200 - 1,800 mm in most areas, with higher precipitation on the seaward side of mountains; 80 percent of the rain falls from April to September

Physical features: high in the northwest and low in the southeast; mountains on three sides; hills and plains in the middle and south; karst covers more than halt of the region; drained by western branches of the Pearl River; faces the Beibu Bay.

Products: rice, wheat, corn, polatoes, millet, sorghum, rape, cassava, peanuts, sugar cane, tea, soybeans; ambary hemp, silk cocoons; tobacco; oranges, lychees, longans, bananas, pineapples, subtropical and tropical cash crops including rubber, coffee, pepper, sisal hemp, tea oil, and lemongrass; timber: aniseed, fennel oil, cassia bark; sea products; Manganese, bauxite, salt, coal, plaster stone, sulphur, tin, phosphorus, antimony, walfrom, iron, gold

Administrative divisions: 11 cities, 65 counties and 12 autonomous counties

Capital: Nanning

Neighboring areas: Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Guangdong Provinces

Neighboring country: Vietnam

Major cities: Nanning, Guilin, Liuzhou, Wuzhou, Beihai, Pingxiang, Bose

Tourist attraction: Karst Hills in Guilin

Special Note: the Beibu Gulf is a tropical fishing ground.