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The Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture (??????????; pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Déhóng Daizú Jingpozú zìzhìzhou) is located in Yunnan
Yunnan

is a political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately 394,000 square kilometers ....
 province, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
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The Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture (??????????; pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Déhóng Daizú Jingpozú zìzhìzhou) is located in Yunnan
Yunnan

is a political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately 394,000 square kilometers ....
 province, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
.

Geography

Dehong stretches 122 km (~73 statute miles) from east to west and 170 km (~103 miles) from north to south, it's area is 11526 km² (~4150 mi²).

Administration

Dehong is divided into three counties and two county level cities
County-level city

A county-level city is a Political divisions of China#County level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by Political divisions of China#Prefecture level divisions, but a few are governed directly by Political divisions of China#Province level divisions....
: Lianghe County
Lianghe County

Lianghe County is located in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan province, southwest China.External links...
, Yingjiang County
Yingjiang County

Yingjiang County is a County in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, southwestern China....
, Longchuan County
Longchuan County

Longchuan 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...
; Luxi City
Luxi City, Yunnan

Luxi City is a county-level city in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China.It is the seat of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture....
 and Ruili City.

The prefectural
Prefecture (China)

Prefecture, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions of China in both Chinese history and China.In a modern context, prefecture-level is used to refer to a level of division between the Political divisions of China#Province level and Political divisions of China#County level levels....
 government seat is Luxi City
Luxi City, Yunnan

Luxi City is a county-level city in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China.It is the seat of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture....
.

Population

The population of Dehong is 1.02 million, 48.17% of whom are Han Chinese
Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the Earth.Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98 percent of the population of the Republic of China , 75 percent of the population of Singapore, and about 19 percent...
, 51.83% are national minorities, mostly Dai
Dai people

The 'Dai' peoples of People's Republic 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 specifically 'Tai Lue', ...
 and Jingpo
Jingpo

The Jingpo or Kachin people are an ethnic group who largely inhabit northern Burma . They also form one of the List of Chinese 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


External links

  • (in Chinese)
  • (magazine in Chinese)
  • (from Xinhuanet.com, in Chinese)