云南地形（Yunnan topography）.doc

云南地形（Yunnan topography） Geography of Yunnan A, position and area Yunnan referred to as Yunnan, located in southwest Chinese, located at 21 degrees north latitude 832 - 29 degrees 158, 97 degrees east longitude 3139 - 106 1147 between the Tropic of cancer across the southern part of the province. Whats the maximum transverse distance of 864.9 km north-south 990 km away from the maximum longitudinal, a total area of 394 thousand square kilometers, accounting for 4.1% of the total area, ranking eighth in the country. Yunnan Province, bordering the West and southwest of Burma, South and adjacent to Vietnam, Laos, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guizhou province in eastern and Northern Sichuan province is connected with adjacent to the northwest of the Tibet autonomous region on tight. The border line of 4061 kilometers, is one of Chinas provinces adjacent to the neighboring countries, most of the longest border line. Yunnan has 8 border areas, 26 border counties, has opened 11 national ports, 9 provincial ports and hundreds of border crossings with neighboring countries and Southeast Asia and other countries and regions are the main land China convenient communication, communication in the Southeast Asia and South Asia on the channel, open border condition is extremely superior. Two, the national population, and administrative divisions At the end of 2001, total population of 42 million 874 thousand people in Yunnan province. In addition to the Han nationality population of more than 50 million people, there are 25 ethnic minority groups, 15 of which are unique to Yunnan, minority population of the provinces total population of 1/3. Yunnan is not only a minority population and minority species in the country most. In addition, Yunnan is still the most domestic and cross-border ethnic provinces. In 25 ethnic groups, with 13 ethnic groups across Vietnam, Laos and China Myanmar border, overseas distribution in the vast areas of northern Vietnam, northern Laos and