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Guizhou is a province of the PRC located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang. Guizhou (often abbreviated to “Gui” or “Qian”) is located on the eastern slope of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southeastern part of China. It borders Hunan Province to the east, Guangxi Autonomous Region to the south, Yunnan Province to the west and Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality to the north.
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Guo, R. (2013). Guizhou. In: Regional China. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287670_9
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