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Where is Lijiang, which province and which city?

According to the portal website of Lijiang Municipal People's Government, Lijiang is in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province. Lijiang is located in the southeast edge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, east of Hengduan Mountains, middle reaches of Jinsha River and northwest of Yunnan Province. It borders Panzhihua City and Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province in the east and northeast, Jianchuan, Heqing and Binchuan counties in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in the south, Dayao and Yongren counties in Wei Chu or across the river, Lanping County in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture and Weixi County in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the west, and Shangri-La City in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest across the Jinsha River. It is one of the eight prefecture-level cities in Yunnan Province. Located in the northwest of Yunnan Province, it is about 500 kilometers away from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, and only about 180 kilometers away from Dali, a famous tourist city in Yunnan Province.