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Liupanshui 六盘水市
Prefecture-level city
Location of Liupanshui Prefecture في گوي‌ژو
Liupanshui Location of Liupanshui Prefecture في گوي‌ژو Liupanshui Liupanshui (جنوب غرب الصين)
الإحداثيات (Liupanshui municipal government): 26°35′33″N 104°49′49″E
البلد	جمهورية الصين الشعبية
المقاطعة	گوي‌ژو
Municipal seat	Zhongshan District
المساحة
• Prefecture-level city	9٬926 كم² (3٬832 ميل²)
التعداد  (2006)
• Prefecture-level city	2٬830٬000
• العمرانية	251٬900
منطقة التوقيت	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	553000
مفتاح الهاتف	858
ISO 3166 code	CN-GZ-02
الموقع الإلكتروني	www.gzlps.gov.cn

Liupanshui (الصينية المبسطة: 六盘水؛ الصينية التقليدية: 六盤水؛ پن‌ين: Liùpánshuǐ�) is a city in western Guizhou province, People's Republic of China. The name Liupanshui combines the first character from the names of each of the city's three constituent counties: Liuzhi, Panzhou, Shuicheng. As a prefecture-level city with an area of 9,926 square kilometres (3,832 sq mi), Liupanshui had a total population of over 2,830,000 in 2006, making it the second largest in the province, though only 251,900 inhabitants were urban residents. The city is known locally as "The Cool City" or "Cool Capital" due to its low average summer temperature.

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 التاريخ

The general area is significant as the seat of the historic Yelang political entity, a confederation of tribes that dominated parts of modern-day Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. The city was established in 1978 as a prefecture-level municipality.

 التقسيمات الادارية

Ethnic townships in Liupanshui except Liuzhi. Light green -Yi. Blue - miao. Dark green- Bouyei

Its administratively divided to the following county-level jurisdictions:

• District
  • Zhongshan District （钟山区code: zh is deprecated ）
  • Shuicheng District （水城区code: zh is deprecated ）
• Special District
  • Liuzhi Special District （六枝特区code: zh is deprecated ）
• County-level city
  • Panzhou City （盘州市code: zh is deprecated ）

Map
Zhongshan Shuicheng Liuzhi Panzhou (city)

 الجماعات العرقية

The Liupanshui City Ethnic Gazetteer (六盘水市志：民族志code: zh is deprecated ) (2003:139, 154, 160) lists the following ethnic groups and their respective locations.

• Bai
  • Pan County (pop. 16,829): in Jiuying (旧营code: zh is deprecated ), Gaotun (高屯code: zh is deprecated ), Yangchangba (羊场坝code: zh is deprecated ), Luna (鲁那code: zh is deprecated ), Shahe (沙河code: zh is deprecated )
  • Shuicheng County (pop. 6,711): in Longchang (龙场code: zh is deprecated ), Yingpan (营盘code: zh is deprecated )
• Gelao
  • Liuzhi Special District (pop. 8,128): in Langdai (郎岱code: zh is deprecated ), Xinhua (新华code: zh is deprecated ), Duoque (堕却code: zh is deprecated )
  • Shuicheng County (pop. 1,862): in zh (Fa'er) (发耳code: zh is deprecated ), zh (Longchang Miao, Bai, and Yi Ethnic Township) (龙场code: zh is deprecated ), zh (Yangmei Yi, Miao, and Hui Ethnic Township) (杨梅code: zh is deprecated ), zh (Miluo, Guizhou) (米箩code: zh is deprecated ), zh (Panlong, Guizhou) (蟠龙code: zh is deprecated )
• Shui
  • Pan County (pop. 3,519): in zh (Panguan) (盘关code: zh is deprecated )
  • Shuicheng County (pop. 4,211): in Fa'er

 النقل

 السكك الحديدية

Liupanshui is a major rail hub in southwestern China. The Shanghai-Kunming, Liupanshui-Baiguo and Neijiang-Kunming Railways intersect in the city.

 السياحة

Tourism in Liupanshui focuses on minority folk culture and karst landform tourism. This includes the underground lake in Qilin Cave Park (麒麟公园code: zh is deprecated ), Danxia Mountain (丹霞山code: zh is deprecated ), about which Xu Xiake, the Chinese travel writer and geographer of the Ming Dynasty, had written. Yushe National Park (玉舍国家公园code: zh is deprecated ) includes the Jiucai Ping Scenic Zone (韭菜坪景区code: zh is deprecated ). The flat-topped Jiucai Ping is the tallest mountain in Guizhou Province at about 2900 meters. Jiucai here means "garlic chives," so named because the mountain is famous for its garlic chive blossoms. Other attractions include the sunrise, the sea of clouds, and unusual rock formations. Also notable is the Tiansheng Bridge (天生桥code: zh is deprecated ), "tiansheng" meaning "god-made." There is also a nature reserve called Shuicheng Francois's Leaf Monkey Nature Reserve (水城野钟黑叶猴自然保护区code: zh is deprecated ).

 المطبخ

Local cuisine includes Yangrou fen (羊肉粉code: zh is deprecated ) - Lamb rice noodles, and Luoguo yangyu (烙锅洋芋code: zh is deprecated ) - Fried potatoes.

 العلاقات الدولية

انظر أيضاً: List of twin towns and sister cities in China

 البلدات التوأم — المدن الشقيقة

Liupanshui is twinned with:

• Tucson, Arizona, United States

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 انظر أيضاً

• History of Yunnan