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Top Cities in Yunnan

Yunnan (Beautiful Clouds in the South) Province is the most southwest region of China bordering the countries of Vietnam, Laos, and Burma. Yunnan Province borders Guizhou Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the east, Chongqing and Sichuan to the north, and Tibet Autonomous Region  to the northwest. Yunnan encompasses 394,000 square kilometers (152,084 square miles) and has a population of more than 42 million people.

1. Kunming

Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, with a history of more than 2400 years, owes its importance to the fact that it was the gateway to the celebrated Silk Road that facilitated trade with Tibet, Sichuan, Myanmar and India. Today the city is the political, economical and cultural center of Yunnan and the provincial center for transport, science and technology and consequently has become the most popular center for tourism in Southwest China.

2. Dali

Situated at the boundary of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Hengduan Mountains, Dali's terrain drops in elevation as one travels from the northwest and to the southeast. The landform of the city is varied and complicated. With the Cangshan Mountain as a limit, the west consists of high mountains and numerous valleys, while the east is made up of medium mountains and slopes. The Yunling Mountains and Nushan Mountains are the main ranges in Dali. In addition, there are more than one hundred and sixty rivers of all sizes belonging to waterway systems of Jinsha, Lancang, Nujiang and Honghe rivers. There are also eight alpine lakes that resemble pearl inlaid in Dali.

3. Shangri-la

Shangri-La is the "Eden in dream". Since it first appeared in British novelistJames Hilton's Lost Horizon in the 1939, it has been associated withthe mystique of a place which could not possibly exist here on Earth. In Tibetan,Shangri-La means the "sun and moon in heart", an ideal home only found in heaven.There the lofty and continuous snowy mountains, endless grasslands, steep andgrand gorges, azure lakes and the bucolic villages always leave a deep impressionon visitors.

4. Lijiang

It is said there is a fairyland beneath the colorful clouds of southern China. A place blessed with fresh air, clear streams, breathtaking snow mountains, and an undisturbed landscape inhabited by a friendly group of people. Life in this fairyland is so peaceful, a fairyland called Lijiang, located at the hub of Tibet, Yunnan and Sichuan provinces.

5. Xishuangbanna

Bank of China Xishuangbanna Branch: No.23, Minhang Road, Jinghong City. China Post Xishuangbanna Branch: No.2, Jinghong Road (West), Jinghong City Location: Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture is located at the south end of Yunnan Province. It shares a boundary of 966 kilometers (619 miles) with Burma and Laos in the east, south and west, being a vital pass from China to indo-China Peninsular by land.

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