Guilin is a large seventeen-unit municipality where the Li River's karst core, Yangshuo tourism, Longji terraces, northern county history, Zhuang and Yao community traditions, caves, farms, and market towns differ sharply.
The province guide is a regional index, not a substitute for the detailed city profiles below. Every listed city retains its own sources, scope, imagery, and editorial review.
Yong River, tributaries, subtropical hills, karst edges, basins, farmland, and twelve county-level units define Nanning.
History
Eleven sourced layers move from river, basin and karst geography through archaeology, Yongzhou and walled-city formation, river trade, guild halls, outer settlements, modern roads and public institutions, disruption and rebuilding, multi-centre growth, and the exact end-2025 twelve-unit municipality.
Food and daily life
Fourteen entries treat Nanning food as a municipal system of rice-noodle production, fermentation, pickling, county products, household and festival practice, markets and regional circulation. Laoyou noodles, raw-pressed noodles, suanye, lemon duck and five-colour rice receive image-backed treatment, with explicit provenance, allergen and current-safety limits.
