Wondering how to use Yunnan in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as state or province.
Yunnan in a sentence
Yunnan meaning
A province in southwestern China, bordering Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam. Capital: Kunming.
Using Yunnan
- The main meaning on this page is: A province in southwestern China, bordering Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam. Capital: Kunming.
- Useful related words include: yunnan province, state, province.
- In the example corpus, yunnan often appears in combinations such as: yunnan province, china yunnan, in yunnan.
Context around Yunnan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yunnan
- In this selection, "yunnan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, west, southwest, seconds, province, started and guizhou stand out and add context to how "yunnan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include china s yunnan province and 1950 from yunnan province after. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yunnan" sits close to words such as aapl, abattoir and adjei, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yunnan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A woman works at a motorbike factory in China's Yunnan Province. (12 words)
A woman plants rice in Yingjiang, near the Myanmar border, in Yunnan Province, China, on May 26, 2012. (18 words)
People take pictures in front of a border checkpoint between China and Myanmar, in Ruili, west Yunnan Province on Friday. (20 words)
The block turned out to be a marker for the proposed route of a nearly 414-kilometer-long, China-backed railway that will link Kunming, the capital of China’s Yunnan Province, and Mandalay, the second-largest economic hub in Myanmar. (41 words)
After fleeing conflict in Kachin State and living in an IDP camp, 16-year-old Seng Moon was told of a job as a cook by her sister-in-law in China’s Yunnan province. (35 words)
Ten Seconds Yunnan Rice Noodles has opened at 836 N. Thompson Ln., offering authentic Chinese meal options including dim sum, stir fries, lots of warm and cold noodle dishes, soups, squid skewers and more. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Yunnan is right on our doorstep and as soon as we opened that door, people from Yunnan started pouring in as if Mandalay was their own country.
A separate statement released by the provincial government of China’s Yunnan, which neighbours Myanmar, said the drills would run until Nov. 28 in the areas near Manghai, Manling and Qingshuihe villages.
A woman works at a motorbike factory in China's Yunnan Province.
Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang and the rugged highlands in Sichuan and Yunnan are located on the fringe of the geologically complex Qinghai-Tibet plateau.
People take pictures in front of a border checkpoint between China and Myanmar, in Ruili, west Yunnan Province on Friday.
Nestled in the country’s southwest, Yunnan was known for its fertile valleys and temperate climate, ideal for growing rice and other staple crops.
Poor contiguity of cultivated land mainly occurred on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, in southern China, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and on the south and northwest of the Loess Plateau.
Ten Seconds Yunnan Rice Noodles has opened at 836 N. Thompson Ln., offering authentic Chinese meal options including dim sum, stir fries, lots of warm and cold noodle dishes, soups, squid skewers and more.
Three people were killed and three others remained missing following a coal mine accident in Weixin County, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, local authorities confirmed on Sunday.
After five years of intense sampling of pathogens found in Shitou Cave, the outskirts of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, scientists discovered hundreds of bat-borne coronavirus with incredible genetic diversity.
Bees provide essential services to our ecosystems and are the major pollinators of many of our staple foods, Dr Alice Hughes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yunnan told BBC News today.
China is known to be controlling (in a limited sense) the water flow over the Southeast Asian nations after they have built Yunnan dam into the Mekong River.
In 2013, scientists captured a wild horseshoe bat in a remote cave in Yunnan province, 1,700km southwest of Wuhan.
It said authorities were working with retailers to bring food from as far away as Yunnan province in the southwest and Hainan island in the South China Sea.
Kuomintang troops first fled into Myanmar in 1950 from Yunnan Province after they were defeated by the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese civil war.
Ling Xun, who lives in the city of Dali in China’s Yunnan Province, has been perfecting his resin-painting skills for eight years.
Meanwhile, the African swine fever, which first broke out among China’s hog population in August 2018, has again emerged in nine Chinese provinces, including Hubei, Yunnan, and Jiangsu.
The block turned out to be a marker for the proposed route of a nearly 414-kilometer-long, China-backed railway that will link Kunming, the capital of China’s Yunnan Province, and Mandalay, the second-largest economic hub in Myanmar.
After fleeing conflict in Kachin State and living in an IDP camp, 16-year-old Seng Moon was told of a job as a cook by her sister-in-law in China’s Yunnan province.
A woman plants rice in Yingjiang, near the Myanmar border, in Yunnan Province, China, on May 26, 2012.
Common combinations with yunnan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- yunnan province 21×
- china yunnan 8×
- in yunnan 8×
- from yunnan 7×
- and yunnan 4×
- of yunnan 4×
- the yunnan 4×
- yunnan and 3×
- county yunnan 3×
- yunnan is 2×