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Yunnan

Yunnan is a province in southern , bordering , and as well as the Chinese provinces and regions of , , and .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kunming and Dali.

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is the capital of Yunnan Province in China. Known in China as the City of Eternal Spring, is at an almost-tropical latitude but with a 2000 m altitude, which gives it a very temperate climate.

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City is the county-level seat of the in northwestern Yunnan, China. City is administered through 12 township-level districts, two of which are also commonly referred to as . is the modern city centre and usually conflated with City by virtue of being its seat.

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is a small city in Yunnan Province, ; it was once the capital of a small kingdom. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a busy tourist town.

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is in . It consists of Diqing Prefecture, and Lijiang Prefecture.

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is in Yunnan Province. It borders Sichuan Province to the north, Qujing Prefecture to the east, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture to the southeast, Yuxi Prefecture to the southwest and Chuxiong Yu Autonomous Prefecture to the west.

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is in .

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refers to the region of Yunnan province, China, consisting of , , , , and 7 counties of northern .

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is a picturesque region in the western part of Yunnan Province, China, covering several cities and autonomous prefectures, including City, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, and Lincang City.
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Yunnan

Latitude of center
25° north
Longitude of center
102° east
Population
45,400,000
Elevation
1,929 metres (6,329 feet)
Abbreviation
“滇”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082773
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1785694
Wiki­data ID
Q43194
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Yunnan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Yunnan”
  • Achinese: “Yunnan”
  • Afrikaans: “Yunnan”
  • Arabic: “يونان”
  • Armenian: “Յունան”
  • Armenian: “Յուննան”
  • Assamese: “য়ুন্নান”
  • Asturian: “Yunnan”
  • Balinese: “Yunnan”
  • Basque: “Yunnan”
  • Batak Toba: “Yunnan”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Юньнань”
  • Belarusian: “Юньнань”
  • Bengali: “ইউনান”
  • Bengali: “ইউন্নান”
  • Breton: “Yunnan”
  • Bulgarian: “Юнан”
  • Bulgarian: “Юннан”
  • Burmese: “ယူနန်”
  • Burmese: “ယူနန်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Yunnan”
  • Cebuano: “Yunnan Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای یونان”
  • Chechen: “Юньнань”
  • Chinese: “CN-53”
  • Chinese: “Hûn-lâm-séng”
  • Chinese: “Yunnan Sheng”
  • Chinese: “Yúnnán shěng”
  • Chinese: “Yúnnán”
  • Chinese: “云”
  • Chinese: “云南”
  • Chinese: “云南省”
  • Chinese: “滇”
  • Chinese: “雲”
  • Chinese: “雲南”
  • Chinese: “雲南省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Yunnan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Yünnan”
  • Croatian: “Junan”
  • Croatian: “Yunnan”
  • Czech: “Jün-nan”
  • Czech: “Junnan”
  • Czech: “Jünnan”
  • Czech: “Provincie Jün-nan”
  • Czech: “Yunnan”
  • Danish: “Yunnan”
  • Dutch: “Juun-nan”
  • Dutch: “Yunnan”
  • Esperanto: “Junano”
  • Esperanto: “Junnan”
  • Esperanto: “Junnano”
  • Esperanto: “Yunnan”
  • Estonian: “Yunnan”
  • Estonian: “Yunnani provints”
  • Finnish: “Yunnan”
  • French: “Province de Yunnan”
  • French: “Yun-nan”
  • French: “Yún-nán”
  • French: “Yün-nan”
  • French: “Yunnan”
  • French: “Yúnnán”
  • Galician: “Yunnan”
  • Gan Chinese: “云南省”
  • Gan Chinese: “雲南”
  • Georgian: “იუნანი”
  • German: “Junnan”
  • German: “Jünnan”
  • German: “Yun-Nan”
  • German: “Yün-nan”
  • German: “Yunnan”
  • German: “Yünnan”
  • Greek: “Γιουνάν”
  • Gujarati: “યુન્નન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yùn-nàm-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yùn-nàm”
  • Hebrew: “יו’נאן”
  • Hebrew: “יונאן”
  • Hindi: “युण्नान”
  • Hindi: “युन्नान प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “युन्नान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “युन्नान”
  • Hindi: “यून्नान”
  • Hungarian: “Jünnan”
  • Hungarian: “Yunnan”
  • Icelandic: “Junnan”
  • Icelandic: “Yunnan”
  • Ido: “Provinco Yunnan”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Yunnan”
  • Indonesian: “Yúnnán Shěng”
  • Indonesian: “Yunnan”
  • Indonesian: “云南省”
  • Interlingua: “Yunnan”
  • Irish: “Yunnan”
  • Italian: “Yunnan”
  • Japanese: “ユンナン”
  • Japanese: “云南省”
  • Japanese: “雲南省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “雲南省”
  • Kannada: “ಯುನ್ನಾನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “یوننان”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តយូណាន”
  • Kongo: “Yunnan”
  • Korean: “운남 성”
  • Korean: “운남”
  • Korean: “운남성”
  • Korean: “윈난”
  • Korean: “윈난성”
  • Kurdish: “Yunnan”
  • Lao: “ຢູນນານ”
  • Latin: “Iunannia”
  • Latin: “Iunnania”
  • Latvian: “Juņnaņa”
  • Latvian: “Juņnaņas province”
  • Latvian: “Yunnan”
  • Lisu: “ꓬꓱ-ꓠ”
  • Literary Chinese: “雲南”
  • Lithuanian: “Junanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Junanis”
  • Lithuanian: “Junnanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Yunnan”
  • Lombard: “Yunnan”
  • Lü: “ᦍᦲᧃᧉᦓᦱᧃᧉ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yunnan”
  • Macedonian: “Јунан”
  • Malagasy: “Yunnan”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Yunan”
  • Malay: “Yunan”
  • Malay: “Yunnan”
  • Malayalam: “യുന്നാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Yunnan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯌꯨꯟꯅꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Yunnan”
  • Marathi: “युइन्नान”
  • Marathi: “युनान”
  • Marathi: “युन्नान”
  • Mazanderani: “یون‌نان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hùng-nàng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hûn-lâm-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hûn-lâm”
  • Minangkabau: “Yunnan”
  • Mingrelian: “იუნანი”
  • Mongolian: “Юньнань муж”
  • Nepali: “युन्नान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yunnan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yunnan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yunnan”
  • Norwegian: “Yunnan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yunnan”
  • Ossetian: “Юньнань”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ယူနန်ခမ်းနယ်ႏ”
  • Pampanga: “Yunnan”
  • Persian: “استان یونان”
  • Persian: “ایالت یونان”
  • Persian: “یون نان”
  • Persian: “یوننان”
  • Persian: “یون‌نان”
  • Polish: “Junan”
  • Polish: “Junnan”
  • Polish: “Jünnan”
  • Polish: “Yunnan”
  • Portuguese: “Iunã”
  • Portuguese: “Iunão”
  • Portuguese: “província de Yunnan”
  • Portuguese: “Yunnan”
  • Quechua: “Yunnan pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Yunnan”
  • Romanian: “Yunnan”
  • Russian: “Yunnan”
  • Russian: “Юннан”
  • Russian: “Юннань”
  • Russian: “Юньнань”
  • Santali: “ᱭᱩᱱᱟᱱ”
  • Scots: “Yunnan”
  • Serbian: “Јунан”
  • Serbian: “Корла”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yunnan”
  • Shan: “ယူႇၼၢၼ်ႇ၊ မိူင်း”
  • Sichuan Yi: “ꒊꆈ”
  • Sindhi: “ينان صوبو”
  • Sindhi: “يونان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “යුනාන්”
  • Slovak: “Jün-nan”
  • Slovenian: “Junan”
  • Slovenian: “Yunnan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Yunan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Yunnan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Yunnán”
  • Spanish: “Yunan”
  • Spanish: “Yunnan”
  • Spanish: “Yunnán”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Yunnan”
  • Swahili: “Yunnan”
  • Swedish: “Junnan”
  • Swedish: “Jünnan”
  • Swedish: “Yunnan”
  • Swedish: “Yúnnán”
  • Swedish: “Yünnan”
  • Tagalog: “Yunnan”
  • Tajik: “Йуннон”
  • Tamil: “யுன்னான்”
  • Telugu: “యునాన్”
  • Thai: “Yunnan”
  • Thai: “มณฑลยูนนาน”
  • Thai: “มณฑลยูนาน”
  • Thai: “มณฑลหยุนหนาน”
  • Thai: “ยูนนาน”
  • Thai: “ยูนาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཡུན་ནན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཡུན་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཡུན་ནན།”
  • Turkish: “Yunnan”
  • Turkish: “Yünnan”
  • Uighur: “Yünnen Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “يۈننەن ئۆلكىسى”
  • Uighur: “يۈننەن”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Юньнань”
  • Ukrainian: “Юньнань”
  • Urdu: “یوننان”
  • Uzbek: “Yunnan”
  • Venetian: “Yunnan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Vân Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Vân Nam”
  • Walloon: “Younnan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yunnan”
  • Welsh: “Yunnan”
  • Western Armenian: “Եունան”
  • Western Frisian: “Yunnan”
  • Western Panjabi: “ینعان”
  • Wu Chinese: “云南省”
  • Yakut: “Юннань”
  • Yue Chinese: “滇”
  • Yue Chinese: “滇省”
  • Yue Chinese: “雲”
  • Yue Chinese: “雲南”
  • Yue Chinese: “雲南省”
  • Yue Chinese: “雲省”
  • Zhuang: “Yinznanz”
  • “ma kipisi Junan”
  • “ma lili Junan”

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