page_title: Yunnan
section_title: Lakes
hierarchical_section_title: Yunnan / Geography / Lakes
caption_attribution_description: English: Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. In the background on top of the right hand side of the lake you can see the holy mountain Ganmu. עברית: אגם לוגו, יונאן, סין.
context_page_description: Yunnan is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres and has a population of 48.300 million. The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, autonomous regions of Guangxi, and Tibet as well as Southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. Yunnan is China's fourth least developed province based on disposable income per capita in 2014.
  Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as 3,000 metres. Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
context_section_description: There are several major lakes in Yunnan. The province has nine lakes with areas of over 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi). They include:
  Dianchi Lake, near Kunming
  Fuxian Lake, in Yuxi, the second deepest lake in China
  Xingyun Lake, directly south of Fuxian Lake and connected with it by a short river
  Qilu Lake, south of Fuxian and Xingyun Lakes, separated from them by mountains, in Tonghai County
  Erhai Lake, near Dali City
  Lugu Lake, in Ninglang near the border with Sichuan
  Yangzong Lake, in Yiliang County
  Yilong Lake
caption: Lugu Lake
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