Yunnan Province 雲南省 | |||||||||
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Province of the Republic of China (1912–1951) | |||||||||
1912–1951 | |||||||||
![]() Yunnan Province (red) as claimed by the Republic of China | |||||||||
Capital | Kunming (1912–1949) Bangkok, Thailand (in exile) (1950–1951) | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• 1947 | 420,465 km2 (162,342 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1947 | 9,066,000 | ||||||||
Historical era | 20th century | ||||||||
• Established | 1912 | ||||||||
• Defection of the Provincial Government | 9 December 1949 | ||||||||
• PRC establishes full control of Yunnan | 1951 | ||||||||
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Yunnan was a province of the Republic of China. It was one of the 22 provinces set up during the Qing dynasty. As one of the 6 provinces in South China, the territory it administers was slightly larger than the present-day Yunnan.
As the ROC does not recognize changes in administrative divisions made by the PRC, including this province, official maps of the ROC government shows Yunnan in its pre-1949 boundaries.