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A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock, e.g. shales overlain by sandstones. The resistant layer acts as a caprock that forms the flat summit of a mesa. The caprock can consist of either sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and limestone; dissected lava flows; or a deeply eroded duricrust. Unlike plateau, whose usage does not imply horizontal layers of bedrock, e.g. Tibetan Plateau, the term mesa applies exclusively to the landforms built of flat-lying strata. Instead, flat-topped plateaus are specifically known as tablelands.

Ningming County is located in the southwest border of Guangxi, bordering Luping County, Gaolu County, Tingli County, Lang Shan Province, Vietnam, and Pingliao County, Guangning Province. The county covers an area of 3705 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 7 towns, 6 townships, 3 overseas Chinese farms, 162 administrative villages (communities) and 1086 natural villages, with a total population of 440000. Zhuang, Han, Yao and other ethnic groups live together, of which the Zhuang population accounts for 82.9%. There are Aidian national first-class ports and Aidian, Bandang, Beishan three border exchange points, the border line is 212 kilometers long, is the longest land border county in Guangxi. Ningming is rich in resources and excellent ecology, with an area of 1.25 million mu of arable land, an annual output of 100000 tons of grain and 3 million tons of sugarcane, a total forest area of 3.35 million mu and a forest coverage rate of 60.4%. It is a "national advanced county for grain production" and "national sucrose production base county".
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