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Menghai county is located in west of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, with its west and south bordering Myanmar, and with national boundary of 146.556 kilometers, crossing between east longitude of 99 ° 56-100 ° 41, north latitude of 21 ° 28-22 °. It has an area of 5511 square kilometers and a population of more than 300 thousand people.
Menghai County is located in southern district of Hengduan Mountains, and the tail part of the Nujiang River mountain range stretching south. The terrain is lofty in periphery, flat in middle part, with the mutually crossing mountains, hills and basins, the area of those making up 93.5 % of the County’s total. 159 rivers of large and small are running through, which belong to the system of Langcang River. The River of Sand located in the middle part of the County is 92 kilometers long...... |
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