Lushui () is a
county-level city
A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...
in and the seat of
Nujiang Prefecture
Nùjiāng Lisu Autonomous Prefecture () is an autonomous prefecture of western/northwestern Yunnan province, People's Republic of China.
Name
It is named after the Nujiang river (the longest undammed river in Southeast Asia) and the Lisu ethnic ...
, western
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. It
borders
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Border, borders, The Border or The Borders may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Film and television
* ''Border'' (1997 film), an Indian Hindi-language war film
* ''Border'' (2018 Swedish film), ...
Myanmar's
Kachin State
Kachin State ( my, ကချင်ပြည်နယ်; Jingpho language, Kachin: ), also known by the endonym Kachinland, is the northernmost administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east ...
to the west and occupies the southern fifth of Nujiang Prefecture.
Administrative divisions
Lushui City has 6 towns, 2 townships and 1 ethnic township.
;6 towns
;2 townships
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Chenggan ()
*
Gudeng ()
;1 ethnic township
*
Luobenzhuo Bai ()
Climate
See also
*
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas - Unesco World Heritage Site
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Gaoligong Mountains
The Gaoligong Mountains () are a mountainous sub-range of the southern Hengduan Mountain Range, located in the western Yunnan highlands and straddling the border of southwestern China and northern Myanmar (Burma).
Geography
The Gaoligong Mount ...
References
External links
Lushui County Official Website
County-level divisions of Nujiang Prefecture
Cities in Yunnan
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