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Is Yunnan a group tour or a self-help tour?

Due to the remote geographical location and inconvenient transportation, Yunnan's tourism resources are relatively scattered and difficult to reach. It is recommended to join a tour group.

Yunnan Province, called Yun or Dian for short, is one of the 23 provinces in China. Located in the southwest, Kunming, the provincial capital, is between 2 1 8' and 29 15' north latitude and 97 31'~1east longitude. Yunnan province has a total area of 394 1 10,000 square kilometers, ranking eighth in the country. Yunnan Province is one of the provinces with the longest border in China, with 25 border counties in 8 states bordering Myanmar, Laos and Viet Nam respectively.

Yunnan Province is a low-latitude inland area, with the Tropic of Cancer running across the south, with high terrain in the northwest and low terrain in the southeast, and gradually descending from north to south. It belongs to mountainous plateau topography, and the mountainous area accounts for 88.64% of the total area of the province, spanning six major water systems: Yangtze River, Pearl River, Yuanjiang River, Lancang River, Nujiang River and Daying River.

topography

Yunnan belongs to mountainous plateau topography, in which the area at middle altitude 1000 ~ 3500m accounts for 87.2 1% of the whole country's land area, and most parts of Yunnan Province are at middle altitude, and the area below 25 degrees accounts for 56.46% of the whole country's land area. From the landform types, the areas of plains, terraces, hills and mountains account for 4.85% of the land area respectively.

The terrain is bounded by Yuanjiang Valley and the wide valley in the southern section of Yunling Mountain Range, which is divided into two major terrain areas: east and west. The eastern and central Yunnan Plateau is a part of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with an average elevation of about 2000 meters. It is characterized by gentle rolling hills and circular hills, and various types of karst landforms are developed.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yunnan