Baoshan Counties Travel Guide

Lying in the western part of Yunnan Province, at the southern end of the Hengduan Mountains and 593 kilometres away from the provincial seat Kunming, Baoshan occupies an area of 4,826 square kilometres. It has a population of 680,000 people, consisting of the Han, Yi, Bai, Dai, Lisu, Miao, Hui, De'ang, Wa and Man nationalities. The Dai and Lisu people live in the low-latitudinal, humid valley of the Nujiang (Salween) River. The Han and Hui people mostly live on temperate, level lands. The Miaos and other minority nationalities are distributed in the mountains on both sides of the Nujiang (Salween) and Lancangjiang (Mekong) Rivers.

Baoshan City has 3,745 overseas Chinese, living in 18 countries, such as Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Bolivia, Paraguay, etc. There are 159 returned overseas Chinese and 5,053 family members of overseas Chinese.

Administrative divisions
The city-prefecture of Baoshan has jurisdiction over five subdivisions - a district and four counties:

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#	Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Population (2003 est.)	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
1	Longyang District	隆阳区	Lóngyáng Qū	850,000	5,011	170
2	Shidian County	施甸县	Shīdiàn Xiàn	330,000	2,009	164
3	Tengchong County	腾冲县	Téngchōng Xiàn	610,000	5,845	104
4	Longling County	龙陵县	Lónglíng Xiàn	270,000	2,884	94
5	Changning County	昌宁县	Chāngníng Xiàn	340,000	3,888	87