Libo County
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Libo County
荔波县 Lipo | |
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 Libo is the southeasternmost division in this map of Qiannan | |
.png) Qiannan in Guizhou | |
  Libo Location of the seat in Guizhou  Libo Libo (Southwest China) | |
| Coordinates (Libo County government): 25°25′26″N 107°53′56″E / 25.4238°N 107.8988°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Guizhou |
| Autonomous prefecture | Qiannan |
| County seat | Yuping |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,432 km2 (939 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 144,849 |
| • Density | 59.56/km2 (154.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 558400 |
| Area code | 0584 |
| Website | http://www.libo.gov.cn/ |
Libo County (simplified Chinese: 荔波县; traditional Chinese: 荔波縣; pinyin: Lìbō Xiàn) is a county of southern Guizhou province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
The county is located in the remote southeastern corner of the prefecture, on the border with Guangxi. Two local sites, Xiaoqikong (小七孔) and Dongduo (洞多), notable for their spectacular karst formations, form part of the multi-site South China Karst UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2007, which is an area about 550,000 km2 in extent.[1]
Administrative divisions
Libo County is divided into 1 subdistrict, 5 towns and 2 ethnic township:[2]
- subdistrict
- Yuping Subdistrict 玉屏街道
- towns
- Chaoyang Town 朝阳镇
- Maolan Town 茂兰镇
- Jialiang Town 甲良镇
- Jiarong Town 佳荣镇
- Xiaoqikong Town 小七孔镇
- ethnic townships
- Yaoshan Yao Ethnic Township 瑶山瑶族乡
- Limingguan Shui Ethnic Township 黎明关水族乡
Languages
Transportation
The Qiannan Libo Airport, opened in late 2007, has capacity to receive planes of the Boeing 737 class, and to handle up to 220,000 passengers annually.[4] However, the $57-million facility is rather underutilized so far.[4] According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) statistics, 151 paying passengers flew into or out of the airport in 2009 - which was a 98% drop compared to the previous year (7886 passengers), and placed the airport the last in list of the nation's 166 airports by traffic volume.[5] Currently four airlines use the airport.
