The
Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture (德宏傣族景颇族自治州;
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Déhóng Dǎizú Jǐngpōzú zìzhìzhōu) is located in
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province,
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Geography
Dehong stretches 122 km (~73 statute miles) from east to west and 170 km (~103 miles) from north to south, its area is 11,526 km² (~4150 mi²).
Administration
Dehong is divided into three counties and two
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Lianghe County{Infobox Settlement|official_name =Lianghe County|other_name =|native_name = {Infobox Settlement|official_name =Lianghe County|other_name =|native_name = {Infobox Settlement...
(梁河县),
Yingjiang County{Infobox Settlement|official_name = Yingjiang County|other_name =|native_name = {Infobox Settlement|official_name = Yingjiang County|other_name =|native_name = {Infobox Settlement...
(盈江县),
Longchuan CountyLongchuan County may refer to:*Longchuan County, Guangdong , a county in Heyuan, Guangdong Province, China*Longchuan County, Yunnan , a county in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China...
(陇川县);
Luxi CityLuxi City is a county-level city in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China.It is the seat of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. In 1996, Luxi was upgraded to a city....
(潞西市) and Ruili City (瑞丽市).
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government seat is
Luxi CityLuxi City is a county-level city in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China.It is the seat of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. In 1996, Luxi was upgraded to a city....
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Population
The population of Dehong is 1.02 million, 48.17% of whom are
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, 51.83% are national minorities, mostly
DaiThe Dai peoples of China is the officially recognized name of several ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture , but by extension can apply to groups in Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma when Dai is used to mean...
and
JingpoThe Jingpho people are an ethnic group who largely inhabit northern Burma . They also form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where they numbered 132,143 people in the 2000 census...
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History
The area was declared an autonomous region in 1953 and in May 1956 became an autonomous prefecture.
Further reading
- Luo, Yongxian. A Grammar of Dehong, Southwest China. Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1999. ISBN 0858834960
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