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Yunnan (South
of the Mountains) on the southern border of
southwest China takes its name from its location
to the south of the Yunling Mountains. Yunnan
is named a plateau and mountain province with
landforms of higher in direction of northwest
and lower in southeast. The average sea level
is 2000 meters high, the highest point in Lijiang
about 6740 meters. It has an area exceeding
390,000 square kilometers and a population of
31.74 million, of which 12.5 per cent live in
the cities and the rest in the rural areas.
Also a multi-national province, it is inhabited
by about 10 million people, or one-third of
the province's total, from the minority nationalities
including the Yis, Bais, Hanis, Zhuangs, Dais,
Miaos, Lisus, Huis, Lahus, Vas, Naxis, Yaos,
Tibetans, Jingpos, Blangs, Achangs, Nus, Pumis,
Jinos, Benglongs, Mongolians and Drungs.
Kunming, the capital of Yunnan
Province, is in southeast Yunnan and is the
political, economic, and cultural center of
the province as well as a hub of communications.
Its sea level is around 1890 meters high with
the area totally more than 20 thousands square
kilometers. The three directions of east, west
and north are around by hills in Kunming, it
is facing the green and beautiful "Dian
Chi" lake at the south., forming from the
better natural space closing by the mountains
and waters. These mountains block the cold air
from the north in the winter, and the warm air
from Indian Ocean flow in Kunming in the summer.
So it makes not cold and not hot all year around
with a well-known pretty name of " Spring
City". Its temperature aversely is 14.7
C¡ã in a year. Under a blue sky occasionally
dotted with white clouds, and with its elegant
plum branches, red camellias, white magnolias,
and yellow primroses, Kunming is truly a delightful
tourist attraction in all seasons.
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