Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, provincial-level administrative region of China, located in the southern part of the country. Guangxi is bounded on the east by Guangdong province, on the north by Hunan and Guizhou provinces, on the west by Yunnan province, on the southwest by Vietnam, and on the south by the Gulf of Tonkin.

The region's history began in 45 BC, during the late Chou dynasty. Various dynasties ruled it up to AD 1279, when the Yüan dynasty gave the province its present name. The Ming dynasty ruled there from 1368 to 1644, the Ch'ing dynasty until 1911, when the Chinese republic was established. Together with neighbouring Kwangtung, Kwangsi in the early 20th century became the base of the Nationalist revolution led by Sun Yat-sen. Following the rise of Chiang Kai-shek to power in 1927, Kwangsi leaders formed the Kwangsi Clique, in opposition to Chiang.

Rice, soybeans, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, tea, vegetables, and fruit. Timber and bamboo harvesting are important, as is fishing. Near the coast in the Gulf of Tonkin lies an offshore oilfield, the Beibuwen Basin.

Major industrial towns are Nanning, Qinzhou, Beihal, Yulin, Guicheng and Wuzhou.

Area 85,100 square miles (220,400 square km); population 44.9 million.

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