Kunming Prefecture
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Regions
- Dongchuan district – area with many red fields
- Jinning County – the county seat, Kunyang, has a large memorial park dedicated to Zheng He
Cities
- – the main city in the prefecture
- Chenggong – Kunming's future city center (under construction), 20 km southeast from the present-day downtown Kunming
Other destinations
- Dian Chi Lake – a gigantic lake on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau near Kunming. Its nickname is the "Sparkling Pearl Embedded in a Highland" and it was the model for the Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace in Beijing.
- – the Stone Forest, a national park full of spectacular stone pillars carved by erosion
- – Jiaozi Snow Mountain and natural area
Understand
Kunming Prefecture is comprised of 14 county-level units (counties and districts, including the 4 districts making up Kunming City proper). Most travellers who visit this prefecture only stop in Kunming or Shilin, but there are other places to be visited.