Kunming (chn)

Kunming

Kunming ranks 3,601st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Voghera, Ludwigslust Palace, and South Dakota. Memorable people born in Kunming include Zheng He, Benedict Anderson, and Nie Er. Memorable people who died in Kunming include Zhu Youlang and Wen Yiduo. Kunming has been the birth place of many explorers and political scientists and the death place of many politicians and writers. Kunming is located in China.

Kunming is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The city was of great significance during World War II as a Chinese military center, American air base, and transport terminus for the Burma Road. In the middle of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, Kunming is at an altitude of 1,900 metres above sea level and a latitude just north of the Tropic of Cancer. The city is the fourth most populous city in Western China, after Chongqing, Chengdu, and Xi'an, as well as the third most populous city in Southwestern China after Chongqing and Chengdu. As of 2020 census, Kunming had a total population of 8,460,088 inhabitants, of whom 5,604,310 lived in its built-up area made of all urban districts but Jinning, not conurbated yet. It is at the northern edge of Dian Lake, surrounded by temples and lake-and-limestone hill landscapes. Read more on Wikipedia