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| A Brief introduction to Xishuangbanna |
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| Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture is located in the southern part of Yunnan Province, over 500 kilometers from Kunming, the provincial capital and covering an area of 2500 square kilometers. It is bounded on the south by Laos and Myanmar, with River Lancang running through the whole region. This autonomous prefecture has under its jurisdiction three city and counties: Jinghong, which is the capital, Mengla and Menghai. Yunjinghong, the county seat of Jinghong, means in the Dai language "a city at dawn". It is now open to foreign tourists as an excursion center. The whole region has a temperate and moist climate, fit for the growth of all kinds of vegetation. This wooded country of exotic trees and flowers is the haunt of rare birds and animals-a paradise in which all living beings thrive and flourish. Xishuangbanna is a multinational
prefecture. Of its population of 600,000 one third are Dais, the
rest being Hanis, Hans, Blangs, Lahus, Yaos and others. |
