Longling County () is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
in
Baoshan City, in the west of
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...
Province, China, bordering
Burma
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's
Shan State
Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos ( L ...
to the south.
Its capital is the large community Longshan ().
The site of the
Songshan Battlefield () (1944 during the
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Thea ...
) has since 2006 been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China.
Administrative divisions
Longling County has 5 towns, 4 townships and 1 ethnic township.
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;4 townships
;1 ethnic township
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Mucheng Yi and Lisu ()
Climate
References
External links
Longling County Official SiteLongling County Tourism BureauWest Yunnan Main Battlefield of Anti-Japanese War of Resistance
County-level divisions of Baoshan, Yunnan
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