The Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County is an

autonomous county Autonomous counties () and autonomous banners () are Counties of China, county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. Autonomous counties tend to have a large number of ethnic minority citizens compared to ordinary counties (if not ...

under the jurisdiction of

Pu'er City Pu'er is a prefecture-level city in southern Yunnan Province, China. Pu'er City governs 9 counties, 1 district, 103 townships (towns), and a total population of 2.65 million. The urban administrative center of Pu'er is Simao District, which is ...

in the south of

Yunnan Province 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 ...

, China. It is in the center of Pu'er City and borders

Mojiang County Mojiang Hani Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, in the south of Yunnan Province, China. It borders Zhenyuan County and Xinping County to the north, Yuanjiang County, Honghe County and ...

across the Babian River to the east and northeast, Simao District and Jiangcheng County to the south, Jinggu County across the Xiaohei River to the west, and Zhenyuan County to the north.

Name

The county was formerly named Pu'er. When Simao changed its name to Pu'er in 2007, the county's name was changed to Ning'er for clarity.

Administrative divisions

In the present, Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County has 6 towns and 3 townships. ;6 towns ;3 townships * De'an () * Puyi () * Liming ()

Demography

The population of the county has a large proportion of native Hani and

Yi people The Yi or Nuosu people (Nuosu language, Nuosu: , ; see also #Names and subgroups, § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in South China, southern China. Numbering nine million people, they are the seventh largest of the 55 Ethnic minorit ...

in a predominantly

Han Chinese The Han Chinese, alternatively the Han people, are an East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the list of contemporary ethnic groups, world's la ...

population. As of 2003 the county records a population of approximately 190,000 people. Ethnic Bai (population: 5,139) are found in Kesa , Heping village , Mengxian township (''Pu'er County Gazetteer'' 1993:120).http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=142503̩ The Datou people number 254 persons and are found in Ning'er County and Simao City. They consider themselves to be ethnic Yi, and also speak a

Yi language The Loloish languages, also known as Yi (like the Yi people) and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of 50–100 Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of Southwestern China. They are most closely related to Bur ...

(You 2013:133).

Climate

Transport

* China National Highway 213

References

External links

Ning'er County Official Website
County-level divisions of Pu'er City Hani autonomous counties Yi autonomous counties {{Yunnan-geo-stub