KWEI-CHOW, kwil'ehou'. or KIIEI-CHOU (Chin., honorable land). The 'slvitzerland of China,' an inland province, bounded on the south west 1,v Yun-nan. on the northwest and north by Sze-chuen, on the east by Ilu-nan, and on the south by Area. 64.454 square miles (Map: China, C 6). It is an exceedingly moun tainous country, but has many fine grassy plains. though of no great extent. The population is. sparse; cultivation is carried on only in the neighborhood of towns and villages. The chief crops are wheat, barley, rice, and the poppy. Coal, iron, copper, silver, quicksilver, and anti mony exist in great quantity. Coal is worked extensively for domestic! use. Opium, wood-oil. tibre-paper, 'rice-paper.' and white wax and gall nuts are the chief exportable products. The province supplies several considerable tributaries to the Si-kiang, which flows through Kwang-si and Kwang-tung. Its chief rivers are the Wu kiang and the Yuen. The rises north of the capital, and. after a course of 501) northeast and north. flows into the Yan!r-tse at Fu-chow. Owing to it- rapid-. it does not be
come navigable until it approaches Sze-chuen, 100 miles from its mouth, where it is known as the Kung-tan River. The Yuen, which flows east and northeast into the Tung-ting Lake, in Hu nan, waters the southeastern part of the pro• ince. lts tipper course: are obstructed by nu merous rapids, but it is navigable from its mouth to within 130 miles of the capital. Kwei-yang (q.v.). \Valli Yunnan. Kwei-ehow forms the Governor-Generalship of Yun-Kwei. The popu lation is about and consists mostly of immigrants from Sze-chu• and other neigh boring provinces. The province has not recov ered yet from the devastation caused by the war which existed in the first, half of the nineteenth century between the Chinese and the aboriginal Miao•tse, who still inhabit the mountains.
kw5Wn't*TV (Chin., cassia forest city). The capital of the Chinese Prov inee of Kwang-si (q.v.). It is a walled city, somewhat decayed, situated on the navigable Liver Kwei (Map: China. D 61.