Funing County, Yunnan
| Funing County | |
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.png) Location of Funing County (pink) and Wenshan Prefecture (yellow) within Yunnan province of China |
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| Country | China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Prefecture | Wenshan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,459 km2 (2,108 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 390,000 |
| • Density | 71/km2 (190/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 663400 |
| Area code(s) | 0876 |
| Website | http://www.ynfn.gov.cn/ |
Funing County (富宁县; pinyin: Fùníng Xiàn) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.
Ethnic groups of Funing County include the following. Population statistics are from 1990, and are sourced from the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer 富宁县民族志 (1998).
The Zheyuan 蔗园 people of Dongbo 洞波, Funing County, and are classified as ethnic Han (You 2013:290, 361-363). They number 1,033 people and call themselves the "Yuexie people" (粤西人), while some also refer to themselves as the Buhong 布红. The Zheyuan people migrated from Xuanhua County 宣化县, Guangxi (currently the southern banks of the Yong River 邕江, in Nanning City, Guangxi) about 150 years ago. The Zheyuan people speak a Yue Chinese dialect.
The Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer (Lu and Nong 1998) identifies the following Zhuang subgroups.
According to the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer 富宁县民族志 (1998), ethnic Yi numbered 11,249 as of 1991, or 3.15% of the total county population. The Zhuang exonym for the Yi is Bùměng 布孟 (also Měngrén 孟人).
There are 92 villages with ethnic Yi (in 38 administrative villages), consisting of 54 pure Yi villages and 38 ethnically mixed villages.
Ethnic Yi are found in the following villages of Funing County.
Coordinates: 23°37′48″N 105°37′34″E / 23.63000°N 105.62611°E
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