Kunming belongs to Yunnan Province, which is the capital of Yunnan Province. It has four seasons like spring and a pleasant climate all year round, so it is called Spring City. Kunming is located in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of China, bordering Guizhou and Guangxi in the east and entering the Central Plains via Chongqing in Sichuan in the north. It connects Vietnam and Laos in the south and Myanmar in the west.

Kunming has a long history and is one of the famous historical and cultural cities in China. This city has existed for more than 2000 years. Kunming city is about 1800 meters above sea level, with high terrain in the north and low terrain in the south, with a uplift in the middle. Kunming is an important transportation hub in western China, and the road network density in Kunming has reached 4.4 km/km2.

Yunnan province

Yunnan Province, called Yun or Dian for short, is one of the 23 provinces in China, located in the southwest of China, with Kunming as its capital. It is between 218 ′ ~ 2915 ′ north latitude and 97 31′ ~1061′ east longitude. It borders Guizhou and Guangxi in the east, Sichuan in the north and Tibet in the northwest.

The total area of Yunnan Province is 394 1 10,000 square kilometers, accounting for 4. 1% of the total land area in China, ranking eighth in the country. Yunnan is one of the provinces with the longest border in China, and 25 border counties in 8 states (cities) border Myanmar, Laos and Viet Nam respectively.

As of August 20 19, there are 16 prefecture-level administrative regions in Yunnan province, including 8 prefecture-level cities, 8 autonomous prefectures, 17 municipal districts, 18 county-level cities, 65 counties and 29 autonomous counties, making a total of 129 county-level divisions. As of 202 1, Yunnan province has a permanent population of 46.9 million, which is the province with the largest number of ethnic minorities in China.