Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture is one of the eight autonomous prefectures in Yunnan Province and the capital of Jinghong City. Xishuangbanna is located at 21/kloc-0'-2240' north latitude and 99 55 '- 10 1 50' east longitude, on the northern edge of the tropical zone south of the Tropic of Cancer.

Area 19 124.5 square kilometers, bordering Pu 'er City in the northeast and northwest, Laos in the southeast and Myanmar in the southwest. The border line is 966.3 kilometers long, with one river connecting six countries and four national ports.

Xishuangbanna is located in the northern edge of the tropics and belongs to the tropical monsoon climate.

Xishuangbanna governs 1 county-level city and 2 counties. 2026,5438+0, Xishuangbanna has a population of 790,300 ethnic minorities. Dai is the main ethnic group, with 13 ethnic groups. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the resident population of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture was 130 1407.

Xishuangbanna, the best-preserved tropical ecosystem in China, is known as the "plant kingdom", "animal kingdom", "biological gene bank" and "a jade in the crown of the plant kingdom", and it is the only tropical rain forest nature reserve in China.

It is a national ecological demonstration zone, a national scenic spot, a member of the United Nations Biodiversity Conservation Circle and an observation point of sustainable tourism development of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, with plant species accounting for 1/6 and animal species accounting for 1/4 of the country.