Yunnan
Proper noun
Meaning
Yunnan
A province in southwestern China, bordering Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam. Capital: Kunming
Phrases with the word
Examples
After five years of intense sampling of pathogens found in Shitou Cave, the outskirts of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, scientists discovered hundreds of bat-borne coronavirus with incredible genetic diversity.
Bees provide essential services to our ecosystems and are the major pollinators of many of our staple foods, Dr Alice Hughes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yunnan told BBC News today.
China is known to be controlling (in a limited sense) the water flow over the Southeast Asian nations after they have built Yunnan dam into the Mekong River.
Arrival of the Tais main The most recent and accurate theory about the origin of the Tai people stipulates that Guangxi in China is really the Tai motherland instead of Yunnan.
From 224 to 225, during his southward campaigns, Zhuge Liang conquered the southern territories up to Lake Dian in Yunnan.
Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, with 70 per cent of Chinese speakers and a huge area stretching from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast.