Guiping

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Guiping ( Chinese  桂平市 , pinyin Guiping Shì ; Zhuang Gveibingz Si ) is a city of the Chinese autonomous region of Guangxi . It is a county-level city in the administrative area of ​​the prefecture -level city of Guigang . In 1999 it had 1,590,048 inhabitants.

The Jintian uprising (1851) at the beginning of the Sino-Christian kingdom of the Taiping movement broke out in the Guiping village of Jintian .

The site of the Jintian Uprising at the beginning of the Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace (Taiping Empire) ( Jintian qiyi dizhi ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-2) since 1961 .

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  1. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/work/downloads/faqs/1999_pop_faq.html

Coordinates: 23 ° 24 '  N , 110 ° 4'  E