Yunnan Province is located in southwestern China with its capital in Kunming. The northern part of Yunnan forms part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The province borders Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guizhou Province in the east, Sichuan Province in the north, and Tibet Autonomous Region in the northwest. It shares a border with Myanmar in the west, Laos in the south, and Vietnam in the southeast.

Yunnan has one Tibetan autonomous prefecture：

Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture:

The prefecture has an area of 23,870 square kilometers and a population of 374,500 with 33.81 percent of them Tibetans.