LakeDian (æ»‡æ± , pinyin: DÄ«an ChÃ) or KunmingLake (昆明湖, pinyin: KÅ«n MÃng Hú) is a large inter-land lake located close to the Kunming City, Yunnan, China.
It is a freshwater fault lake at an altitude of 1,886.5 m above sea level.
Its nickname is "Sparkling Pearl Imbedded in a Highland," and it was the model for the KunmingLake in the Summer Palace in Beijing.
Camellia reticulata, a plant native to Yunnan Province, is the emblem of this province.
Most dialects of the Chinese language spoken in Yunnan belong to the southwestern subdivision of the Mandarin group, and are therefore very similar to the dialects of neighbouring Sichuan and Guizhou provinces.
Yunnan was first connected by railway not to the rest of China, but to the port of Haiphong by a French engineered narrow gauge railway completed in 1910.
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