Longbang

Longbang 龙邦镇
Town
Longbang Location in Guangxi
Coordinates: 22°53′N 106°20′E
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous Region	Guangxi
Prefecture-level city	Baise
County-level city	Jingxi
Area [1]
• Town	119 km^2 (46 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[1]
• Town	20,378
• Density	170/km^2 (440/sq mi)
• Rural	18,123
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Longbang (Chinese: 龙邦) is a town in Jingxi, Guangxi of China.[2] As of 2018^[update], it has 12 villages under its administration.[3]

Most of its residents speak Zhuang dialects.[4] Its main touristic sight are the Pogala underground defense works, an underground fortification built in 1892.[5][6]

It is located near China's border with Vietnam, opposite the Trà Lĩnh District on the Vietnamese side.

Border crossing

At the Longbang Border Crossing (龙邦口岸) (22°52′N 106°20′E) just south of town, Guangxi provincial highway 210 (S210) reaches the international border. There are also plans to extend the Tiandong-Debao rail line (a branch of the Nanning-Kunming Railway) to the Longbang border crossing.[7]

According to a local travel guide site, there is a large market near the border crossing, where goods imported from Vietnam are sold.[8]

References

1. "靖西市龙邦镇". 2015-11-15.
2. 2018年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：靖西市 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
3. 2018年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：龙邦镇 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
4. 龚心瀚 (1993). 边境贸易实务手册 (in Chinese). 上海远东出版社. ISBN 978-7-80514-960-8.
5. 北京六廠二校經驗選編. 香港三聯書店. 1970.
6. 中国民族年鉴 (in Chinese). 民族出版社. 2004.
7. Wang Gang (王刚) (2010-07-24), 泛亚铁路东通道重要路段广西开通 延伸至中越边境 (An important section of the Transasian Railway's Eastern Route; to extend to the Sino-Vietnamese border)
8. Jingxi County - shopping Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine