Jintian, Guangxi
Appearance
Jintian
金田镇 | |
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Coordinates: 23°35′15″N 110°6′58″E / 23.58750°N 110.11611°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous Region | Guangxi |
Population | |
• Total | 9,000 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Jintian (Chinese: 金田镇) is a town in Guiping, Guangxi. It currently has a population of around 9,000. It was the location of the 1851 Jintian uprising, the beginning of the Taiping Rebellion.[1] Jintian is also the name of one of the villages within Jintian Town. The township has a large population of Hakka people.
References
[edit]- ^ Porter, Jonathan. Imperial China, 1350–1900. p. 324.