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Libo County () is a county of southern Guizhou province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.

Geography

The county is located in the remote southeastern corner of the prefecture, on the border with Guangxi. Two local sites, Xiaoqikong () and Dongduo (), notable for their spectacular karst formations, form part of the multi-site South China Karst UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2007, which is an area about 550,000 km2 in extent.

Administrative divisions

Libo County is divided into 1 subdistrict, 5 towns and 2 ethnic township:

subdistrict
Yuping Subdistrict 玉屏街道
towns
Chaoyang Town 朝阳镇
Maolan Town 茂兰镇
Jialiang Town 甲良镇
Jiarong Town 佳荣镇
Xiaoqikong Town 小七孔镇
ethnic townships
Yaoshan Yao Ethnic Township 瑶山瑶族乡
Limingguan Shui Ethnic Township 黎明关水族乡

Languages

Southwestern Mandarin, Mak, Ai-Cham, Bouyei, Sui, and Numao are spoken in Libo County. Sui is spoken primarily in Shuiyao Shui Ethnic Township 水尧水族乡.

Transportation

The Qiannan Libo Airport, opened in late 2007, has capacity to receive planes of the Boeing 737 class, and to handle up to 220,000 passengers annually. However, the $57-million facility is rather underutilized so far. According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) statistics, 151 paying passengers flew into or out of the airport in 2009 - which was a 98% drop compared to the previous year (7886 passengers), and placed the airport the last in list of the nation's 166 airports by traffic volume. Currently four airlines use the airport.