| Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |
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| — Autonomous prefecture — | |
| བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ 迪庆藏族自治州 |
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| Snowy mountains (probably 'white-horse mountain') in Diqing (迪庆), north-west Yunnan, China | |
| Location of Diqing Prefecture within Yunnan province of China | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Admin HQ | Shangri-La |
| Area | |
| • Total | 23,870 km2 (9,216.3 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 353,518 |
| • Density | 14.8/km2 (38.4/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 674400 |
| Area code(s) | 0887 |
| Website | http://www.diqing.gov.cn/ |
Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 迪庆藏族自治州; traditional Chinese: 迪慶藏族自治州; pinyin: Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: Bde-chen Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul) is an autonomous prefecture in Yunnan. It has an area of 23,870 km² and has its capital at Shangri-La County.
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Diqing is divided into three counties, among which one is an autonomous county.
| Map | # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Population (2003 est.) |
Area (km²) | Density (/km²) |
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| 1 | Shangri-La County | 香格里拉县 | Xiānggélǐlā Xiàn | རྒྱལ་ཐང་རྫོང་། (Gyalthang) | 130,000 | 11,613 | 11 | |
| 2 | Dêqên County | 德钦县 | Déqīn Xiàn | མཇོལ་རྫོང་། (Jol) | 60,000 | 7,596 | 8 | |
| 3 | Weixi Lisu Autonomous County | 维西傈僳族 自治县 |
Wéixī Lìsùzú Zìzhìxiàn |
འབའ་ལུང་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཛོང་། (Balung) | 140,000 | 4,661 | 30 |
Located in Gezanba, Diqing Airport is one of the biggest airports in the northwest of the Yunnan Province. There are flights to Lhasa, Chengdu, Beijing(via Kunming), Shanghai Pudong, Shenzhen (via Guiyang), Guangzhou, Kunming and Xishuangbanna.
Highways are main means of transportation to reach Diqing Prefecture. Diqing connects Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet, with a network of highway lines is formed with Yunnan-Tibet highway, Sichuan-Tibet highway and Kangding-Tibet being main roads.
There are also direct bus routes to Kunming, Lijiang, Panzhihua (Sichuan) and neighboring Deqin County.
Ethnic groups in Diqing, 2000 census
| Nationality | Population | Percentage |
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| Tibetan | 117,099 | 33.12% |
| Lisu | 98,195 | 27.78% |
| Han | 57,928 | 16.39% |
| Naxi | 45,269 | 12.81% |
| Bai | 18,182 | 5.14% |
| Yi | 11,616 | 3.29% |
| Hui | 1,496 | 0.42% |
| Pumi | 1,496 | 0.42% |
| Miao | 1,434 | 0.41% |
| Nu | 241 | 0.07% |
| Derung | 137 | 0.04% |
| Others | 425 | 0.11% |
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