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© Lonely Planet Publications 686 l o n e l y p l a n e t . c o m Y Ú N N Á N • • H i s t o r y 687 History of the southwest and established itself as a Yúnnán, China’s sixth-largest province, has fully independent entity, dominating the trade Yúnnán 云南 always been a bit of a renegade. Its remote routes from China to India and Burma. location, harsh terrain and diverse ethnic The Nanzhao kingdom fell in the 10th make-up have made it a difficult province to century and was replaced by the kingdom of govern, and for centuries it was co