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Shangri-La, Yunnan

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Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā; Tibetan: སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།) is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, China, named after Shangri-La, the mythical land depicted in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon. It is the capital and largest city of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is bordered by the city of Lijiang to the south and Sichuan province to the northwest, north, and east.

Shangri-La 香格里拉市 · སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། County-level city Ganden Sumtseling Monastery Dukezong old town Zhongxin Assembly Hall Haba Snow Mountain Potatson National Park Skyline of city Location of Shangri-La (red) in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (pink) within Yunnan Shangri-La Location of the county seat in Yunnan Coordinates (Diqing Prefecture government): 27°49′30″N 99°42′09″E / 27.825°N 99.7025°E CountryChina ProvinceYunnan Autonomous prefectureDiqing Municipal seatGyalthang Town Area • Total 11,613 km2 (4,484 sq mi) Elevation [1] 3,160 m (10,370 ft)…

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