Anthropologists support the notion that the Proto-Malays originated from what is today Yunnan, China.

** It is also the traditional new year of the Dai peoples of Yunnan Province, China.

It is also encountered in some regions of Yunnan and Sichuan regions of China, among the Mosuo people in China, and in some sub-Saharan African such as the Maasai people in Kenya and northern Tanzania and American indigenous communities.

Biston betularia is found in China ( Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan,

The effective population size of the Sichuan population is larger and more stable than that of the Yunnan population, implying a southward expansion from Sichuan to Yunnan.

His description is based on skulls and skins collected in Szechwan, Myitkyina close to the border of Yunnan, and Upper Burma.

The most recent and accurate theory about the origin of the Tai people stipulates that Guangxi province in China is really the Tai motherland instead of Yunnan province.

Thai cuisine is more accurately described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern ( or Isan ), Central, and Southern, each cuisine sharing similar foods or foods derived from those of neighboring countries and regions: Burma to the northwest, the Chinese province of Yunnan and Laos to the north, Vietnam and Cambodia to the east and Malaysia to the south of Thailand.

The Red River, rising in China's Yunnan province, is about 1, 200 kilometers long.

* 1275 – The city of Kunming is made capital of the Yunnan province of the Yuan Dynasty.

* The Ming Dynasty of China annexes the areas of the old Kingdom of Dali, in what is now modern-day Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, inhabited by the Miao and Yao people.

Thus Huia recurvata is an extinct species of plant, found as fossils in Yunnan, China, whereas Huia masonii is a species of frog found in Java, Indonesia.

* The city of Kunming is made capital of the Yunnan province of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.

The highest species diversity is found in the Himalayas from Uttarakhand, Nepal and Sikkim to Yunnan and Sichuan, with other significant areas of diversity in the mountains of Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

By the end of the 14th century, some 200, 000 military colonists settled some 2, 000, 000 mu ( 350, 000 acres ) of land in what is now Yunnan and Guizhou.

These terraced rice fields in Yunnan, China, evidence how the environment is shaped by and shapes economy and society.

Phoenix dance is the traditional dance of some tribes in Yunnan.

Citrus is believed to have originated in the part of Southeast Asia bordered by Northeastern India, Myanmar ( Burma ) and the Yunnan province of China.

There is also a short border with Yunnan province to the southeast.

The railway into Yunnan is a metre gauge line, the only such line to operate inside China ; it may, however, be converted to standard gauge.

The Yunnan – Vietnam Railway will form the Chinese part of the Singapore-Kunming Rail Link, which is expected to be completed in 2015.

Tsaoko cardamom Amomum tsao-ko is cultivated in Yunnan, China and northwest Vietnam, both for medicinal purposes and as a spice.

** Furthermore, the Qa ´ id Jami al-Muslimin ( Leader of the Community of Muslims ) of Pingnan Guo (" Pacified South State ", a major Islamic rebellious polity in western Yunnan province ) is usually referred to in foreign sources as Sultan.

Domestication most likely took place in the western Yunnan region of China.

Other notable explorers include Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti ; George Forrest ; Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who from 1922 – 1949 spent most of his time studying the flora, peoples and languages of southwest China, mainly in Yunnan ; and Peter Goullart, a White Russian who studied Naxi culture and lived in Lijiang from 1940 to 1949.

Yunnan is China's most diverse province, biologically as well as culturally.

Yunnan is home to, most notably, the southeast Asian gaur, a giant forest-dwelling ox, the tiger, and the Asian Elephant.

Some already disappeared and are most likely extinct, like the Yunnan Box Turtle and the Yunnan Lar Gibbon.

He also reduced to vassaldom and received tribute from areas of modern Northern Vietnam, principally in the Black and Red river valleys, and most of Northern Laos, plus the SipSongPanNa (" twelve thousand fields ") region of Yunnan.

In some cases, they are endemic to a single lakes, most notably Lake Er, as well as Lake Dian, Lake Jilu Lake Qilihu, Lake Xingyun and Lake Yi-Lung, which are all in Yunnan proper.

The Qing dynasty did not persecute Muslims systematically, it only massacred rebels regardless of their religion, when the Muslim General Ma Rulong defected to the Qing Dynasty, he became the most powerful military official in Yunnan province.

resulted in five bloody Hui rebellions, most notably the Panthay Rebellion, which occurred in Yunnan province from 1855 to 1873, and the Dungan revolt, which occurred mostly in Xinjiang, Shensi and Gansu, from 1862 to 1877.

The Conservancy's efforts in China's Yunnan province, one of the most vital centers of plant diversity in the northern temperate hemisphere, serve as a model for locally based ecotourism with a global impact.

Since certain climates are best suited to P. ramorum, the most likely sources are the Southern Himalayas, Tibet or Yunnan province.

The rebellion in Yunnan occurred because of repression by Qing officials, resulting in five bloody Hui rebellions, most notably the Panthay Rebellion, which occurred in Yunnan province from 1855 to 1873, and the Dungan revolt, which occurred mostly in Xinjiang, Shensi and Gansu, from 1862 to 1877.

The music of Yunnan, a province in southwestern China, includes the tradition music of many ethnic groups, including the Miao, Hani and Nakhi ( Naxi ), the last being the most numerous in the area.

Hylobates remains the most speciose and widespread of gibbon genera, ranging from southern China ( Yunnan ) to western and central Java.

The most northerly extension was in the Qinling Mountain and Yellow River area at approximately 35 ° N to its southern extension in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces at 21 ° N.

In the Mandalay metropolitan area, however, a large community of Chinese, most of whom are recent immigrants from Yunnan, now nearly rival the Bamar population.

Its range includes southern Tibet, Sikkim and Assam in India, Bhutan, the northern mountains of Burma, and in southwestern China, in the Hengduan Mountains of Sichuan and the Gongshan Mountains in Yunnan.

Mountains of southwestern China ( Sichuan, northern Yunnan ).

In China, they live in compact communities in the Ximeng ( in Va: Mēng Ka or Si Moung ), Cangyuan, Menglian ( Gaeng Līam ), Gengma ( Gaeng Mīex or Gaeng Māx ), Lincang ( Mēng Lām ), Shuangjiang ( Si Nblāeng or Mēng Mēng ), Zhenkang, and Yongde counties in southwestern Yunnan Province in China.

The Nakhi (; endonym: ¹na²khi ) are an ethnic group inhabiting the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.

Similarly, when Wang Mang first became emperor, his ambassadors visited the southwestern tribes ( in modern Guizhou, Yunnan, and southwestern Sichuan ), whose chieftains Han had largely granted the titles of princes.

Over ninety percent of the Hani live in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, scattered across the Ailao Mountains between the Mekong River and the Red River ( Yuanjiang ).

Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja, the Ancient Pueblo Peoples of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western Sumatra.

During World War II, CNAC was headquartered in India, and flew supplies from Assam, India, into Yunnan, southwestern China through the Hump Route, after the Japanese blocked the Burma Road.

The journey from the Lao border town of Huai Xai to the southwestern Chinese border village of Boten situated in southwestern Yunnan province took as long as two days on the old mostly dirt road depending on weather conditions.

The Himalaya, southwestern China ( Yunnan ), northern Myanmar.

In southwestern China, Basalawarmi, the self-styled " Prince of Liang ", established a Yuan resistance movement in Yunnan and Guizhou that was not put down until 1381.

By 1658 Youlang had been forced back into Yunnan, on the very edge of China's southwestern frontier.

Magnolia campbellii, Campbell's Magnolia, is a species of Magnolia that grows in sheltered valleys in the Himalaya from eastern Nepal, Sikkim and Assam, India, east to southwestern China ( southern Xizang, Yunnan, southern Sichuan ) and south to northern Myanmar.

Phoenix roebelenii ( Pygmy Date Palm or Miniature Date Palm ) is a species of date palm native to southeastern Asia from southwestern China ( Yunnan Province ), northern Laos and northern Vietnam, ( in Dien Bien Province, Ha Giang Province, Cao Bang Province, Lang Son Province ).

Lisu ( Lisu: ꓡꓲ-ꓢꓴ or ꓡꓲꓢꓴ ;, ) is a tonal Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Yunnan ( southwestern China ), northern Burma ( Myanmar ), and Thailand and a small part of India.

* Southern (/ lo35 ʂʅ33 / ' Yellow Lo '): extreme southwestern Yunnan, Shan State of Burma, Thailand

Pu ' er is located in southern / southwestern Yunnan, on the lower reaches of the Mekong ( known in China as the Lancang ), with the bordering prefectures being Yuxi to the northeast, Honghe to the east, Xishuangbanna to the south, Lincang to the northwest, and Dali and Chuxiong.

It is located north of Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China.

In the southwestern Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, roots are used as a root vegetable.

Annamocarya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae, containing only one species, Annamocarya sinensis, native to southwestern China ( Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan ) and northern Vietnam.

Magnolia globosa ( commonly known as Globe magnolia or Hen magnolia ) is a species of Magnolia native to Bhutan, southwestern China ( Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan ), northeastern India ( Assam, Sikkim ), northern Myanmar-Burma, and eastern Nepal.