Longchuan County ( zh, s=陇川县 , t=隴川縣 , p=Lǒngchuān Xiàn; ;
Jingpho: ; ) is a
county
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
located in
Dehong Prefecture,
Yunnan
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
province,
southwestern China.
Administration
The county seat is in
Zhangfeng Town ().
Three other
townships have been upgraded to
town (镇, ''zhen'') status:
Longba (陇把),
Chengzi (城子),
Jinghan (景罕)
At present, Longchuan County has 4 towns, 4 townships and 1 ethnic township.
;4 towns
;4 townships
;1 ethnic township
*
Husa Achang Ethnic Township ()
Culture
Many citizens of Dehong Prefecture belong to the
Jingpo-nation ethnic group, an official minority in the People's Republic of China. They are one and the same as the people of
Kachin State
Kachin State (; Jingpho language, Kachin: ) is the northernmost administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east (Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet and Yunnan, respectively), Shan State to the sou ...
, the adjacent part of
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
, and ethno-linguistic ties are strong.
History
Möng Wan was the commumicate of Tai people since more than 1,000 years ago in 1384 the formal first ''
saopha'' was established here the first ruler come from
Möng Mao but in 1441 Kawng Chai, the local Tai people made coup état to the descendants royal from Möng Mao and established himself to be ''saopha'' instead the original lineage, they have 28 saophas who were descendants from Kawng Chai to the mid-1900s.
Climate
References
External links
Longchuan County Official Website
County-level divisions of Dehong Prefecture
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