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Province · Southwest China
Yunnan is a province in Southwest China. Seventeen PreeChina city guides cover Yunnan.
Two Grade I national museums stand in the province. Six UNESCO World Heritage properties have a listed component there.
Counts on this page come from PreeChina's own data as of October 2026. Tickets, opening hours and reservations are not listed, so contact each venue or check its official website for accurate information.
Map
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City Guides
Each city name opens its PreeChina guide.
Landmark Guides
In-depth guides to six landmarks in Yunnan.
Top Attractions
A pick from the Top Attractions of the city guides in Yunnan. Each card opens the Top Attractions of its city.
Kunming
270 million years of limestone erosion into columns and labyrinths, tied to the Sani Ashima legend.
Lijiang
5,596 metres, the southernmost glacier-bearing mountain in the Northern Hemisphere.
Dali
Ming Dynasty walls and Bai courtyard houses, with a living community of long-term residents and cafes.
Xishuangbanna
Ground-level trails and aerial walkways through strangler figs and buttress-root primary forest.
Baoshan
The "Big Rolling Pot" spring boils at 96°C, surrounded by mineral pools ranging from scalding to bathing-suitable.
Pu'er
2,800 hectares of ancient tea trees shade-grown under forest canopy by Bulang and Dai villages.
Yuxi
155 metres deep with visibility exceeding 12 metres, and a submerged Bronze Age site still under archaeological study.
Diqing
One of Tibetan Buddhism's eight sacred mountains, never successfully summited and permanently closed to climbing.
Qujing
13,000 hectares of simultaneous bloom, karst cone hills emerging as dark green islands above the golden fields.
Honghe
16,000 hectares flooded November to April, viewed from the Duoyishu, Bada and Laohuzui platforms.
Lincang
One of the last wild Asian elephant habitats in China, its forest shared across the Myanmar border.
Mangshi
A Dai-style pagoda gradually enveloped by a giant banyan's root system over centuries, now a single fused organism.
Museums
These museums are on the China Museums Association Grade I lists and appear on the museums theme page.
two museums in Yunnan
World Heritage
A property is counted when UNESCO lists at least one component point inside Yunnan. Long lines such as the Great Wall and coastal sites list some of their points, so the list can be shorter than the true extent.
six properties
Routes
Eleven PreeChina routes include stops in Yunnan.
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