(2002 est. pop. 43.2 million). The southeastern China province of Yunnan (Yün-nan, "the cloudy south") borders in the west on Burma and Tibet, in the north on Sichuan, in the east on Guizhou and Guangxi, and in the south on Vietnam...

The Hengduan region in northwest Yunnan Province in China, extending into neighboring Tibet and Sichuan, is China's longest and widest mountain system. The area is transversed by several big rivers running from north to south: the Nu, Lancang,...

For the tea from this region, see Yunnan tea. Coordinates: 24°30′N, 101°30′E Yunnan (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 云南; traditional Chinese: 雲南; pinyin: Yúnnán; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the People's...

Yunnan Province in southern China has been called China's new Shangri-La. The region contains one of Asia's last untouched forests, where three of Asia's mightiest rivers the Yangtze, Mekong, and Salween pass within 44 miles of one another as they flow from the...

In preparation for this month's exciting Global Weekend series of programs, Yunnan Revealed (see p. 70), Teddy Yoshikami, Manager of Public Programs, Department of Education, traveled to China's Yunnan Province. To reach the village of Yubeng, she traveled by car, by horseback, and...

Drivers waited in lines up to a half-mile long to buy gasoline in China's mountainous southwest Tuesday amid rationing aimed at easing a fuel crunch in key export regions elsewhere.Supplies began to run out Sunday in Yunnan province, triggering rationing, filling station employees and news...