SW China
Yunnan
Kunming Prefecture

Kunming

Kunming is the capital of Province in China. Known in China as the City of Eternal Spring, Kunming is at an almost-tropical latitude but with a 2000 m altitude, which gives it a very temperate climate.
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  • Type: City with 3,580,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Yunnan province, China
  • Also known as: “K’un-ming-hsien”, “K’un-ming-shih”, “Kunming City”, “Yün-nan”, and “Yünnanfu”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Tuodong Stadium and Kunming.

Stadium
The Kunming Tuodong Sports Center or is a multi-purpose stadium in Kunming, . The stadium is located at 99 Dongfeng East Road in the downtown center of Kunming City at the elevation of 1,891m and occupying 5.4 ha.

Railway station
Photo: Liuxingy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
railway station is the main railway station serving the city of , , . It is located about four kilometres from the city centre.

Shopping center
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a complex of two skyscrapers and a shopping center in Kunming, , . The skyscrapers are 349 metres and 250 metres tall. Construction started in 2013 and completed in 2019.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lianhua and Lianmeng.

Suburb
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Kunming

Latitude
25.0399° or 25° 2′ 24″ north
Longitude
102.7169° or 102° 43′ 1″ east
Population
3,580,000
Elevation
1,895 metres (6,217 feet)
IATA airport code
KMG
United Nations Location Code
CN KNM
Open location code
7PQ42PQ8+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3009802821
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1804651
Wiki­data ID
Q182852
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Kunming” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kunming”
  • Afrikaans: “Kunming”
  • Albanian: “Kunming”
  • Arabic: “كونمينغ”
  • Armenian: “Կունմին”
  • Asturian: “Kunming”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kunminq”
  • Balinese: “Kunming”
  • Basque: “Kunming”
  • Belarusian: “Куньмін”
  • Bengali: “কুনমিং”
  • Bengali: “খুনমিং”
  • Bosnian: “Kunming”
  • Breton: “Kunming”
  • Bulgarian: “Кунмин”
  • Burmese: “ကူမင်း”
  • Burmese: “ကူမင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kunming”
  • Cebuano: “Kunming (kapital sa lalawigan sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Kunming”
  • Central Kurdish: “کونمینگ”
  • Chechen: “Куньмин”
  • Chinese: “Khun-bêng-chhī”
  • Chinese: “中庆”
  • Chinese: “中慶”
  • Chinese: “昆明”
  • Chinese: “昆明市”
  • Chinese: “春城”
  • Chinese: “鄯阐”
  • Chinese: “鄯闡”
  • Croatian: “Kunming”
  • Czech: “Kchun-ming”
  • Danish: “Kunming”
  • Dutch: “K’oen-ming”
  • Dutch: “Kunming”
  • Esperanto: “Kunming”
  • Esperanto: “Kunmingo”
  • Estonian: “Kunming Shi”
  • Estonian: “Kunming”
  • Finnish: “Kunming”
  • French: “Kunming”
  • French: “Yun-nan-fou”
  • French: “Yunnan Fou”
  • French: “Yunnanfu”
  • Galician: “Kunming”
  • Gan Chinese: “昆明”
  • Gan Chinese: “昆明市”
  • Georgian: “კუნმინი”
  • German: “K’un-ming”
  • German: “Kunming”
  • Greek: “Κουνμίγκ”
  • Greek: “Κουνμίνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “કુન્મિંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Khûn-mìn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “קונמינג”
  • Hindi: “कुनमिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Kunming”
  • Icelandic: “Kunming”
  • Indonesian: “Kunming”
  • Interlingua: “Kunming”
  • Interlingue: “Kunming”
  • Irish: “Kunming”
  • Italian: “Kunming”
  • Japanese: “昆明”
  • Japanese: “昆明市”
  • Japanese: “雲南府”
  • Kannada: “ಕುನ್‌ಮಿಂಗ್‌”
  • Kazakh: “Куньмин қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Куньмин”
  • Kikuyu: “Kunming”
  • Kirghiz: “Куньмин шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Куньмин”
  • Korean: “곤명”
  • Korean: “쿤밍 시”
  • Korean: “쿤밍”
  • Korean: “쿤밍시”
  • Kurdish: “Kunming”
  • Lao: “ຄຸນໝິງ”
  • Latin: “Iunnania”
  • Latin: “Kunming”
  • Latin: “Yunnanfu”
  • Latvian: “Kuņmina”
  • Literary Chinese: “昆明市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kunming”
  • Lithuanian: “Kunmingas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kunming”
  • Macedonian: “Куенминг”
  • Macedonian: “Кунминг”
  • Malagasy: “Kunming”
  • Malay: “Kunming”
  • Maltese: “Kunming”
  • Marathi: “कुन्मिंग”
  • Mazanderani: “کون مينگ”
  • Mazanderani: “کون مینگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kŏng-mìng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Khun-bêng-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Khun-bêng”
  • Mingrelian: “იუნან-ფუ”
  • Mingrelian: “კუნმინი”
  • Mongolian: “Куньмин”
  • Mongolian: “Күньмин”
  • Nepali: “कुनमिङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kunming”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunming”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kunming”
  • Norwegian: “Kunming”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kunming”
  • Ossetian: “Куньмин”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਨਮਿੰਗ”
  • Persian: “کون مینگ”
  • Persian: “کون‌مینگ”
  • Polish: “Kunming”
  • Polish: “Yunnanfu”
  • Portuguese: “Kunming”
  • Quechua: “Kunming”
  • Romanian: “Kunming”
  • Russia Buriat: “Куньмин”
  • Russian: “Куньмин”
  • Russian: “Юньнань-фу”
  • Scots: “Kunming”
  • Serbian: “Kuenming”
  • Serbian: “Куенминг”
  • Serbian: “Кунминг”
  • Serbian: “昆明”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kunming”
  • Sinhala: “කුන්මින්”
  • Slovenian: “Kunming”
  • Spanish: “Kunming”
  • Spanish: “La ciudad de la Primavera”
  • Swedish: “Kunming”
  • Swiss German: “Kunming”
  • Tagalog: “Kunming”
  • Tajik: “Кунмин”
  • Tajik: “Кунминг”
  • Tamil: “குன்மிங்”
  • Telugu: “కున్మింగ్”
  • Thai: “คุนหมิง”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kunming”
  • Turkish: “Kunming”
  • Turkmen: “Kunming”
  • Uighur: “Künming shehiri”
  • Uighur: “كۈنمىڭ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Куньмін”
  • Urdu: “کونمینگ”
  • Uzbek: “Kunmin”
  • Uzbek: “Kunming”
  • Venetian: “Kunming”
  • Vietnamese: “Côn Minh”
  • Vietnamese: “Kunming”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kunming”
  • Welsh: “Kunming”
  • Western Panjabi: “کونمنگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “昆明”
  • Yakut: “Куньминь”
  • Yue Chinese: “昆明”
  • Zhuang: “Gvwnhmingz”

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