Xishuangbanna

Proper noun

Xishuangbanna

1. An autonomous prefecture of Yunnan, China.
   • After a drive of nearly ten hours, through small villages of thatched houses built on stilts, we stop on the last hairpin bend halfway down the mountain. Below, brilliant green and glistening wet, lies Xishuangbanna, in China’s southernmost valley.1980 [1978], Jan Bredsdorff, translated by Alice Roughton, Revolution tur/retur [To China and Back], New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 164–165
   • In Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pronounced she-shwang-ban-na), a cavalcade of bronze and stone elephant statues — some ferocious looking, others positively giddy — have been mounted on traffic islands and in front of new Thai-style shopping malls.2014 April 25, Andrew Jacobs, “In Land That Values Ivory, Wild Elephants Find a Safe Haven”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2014, Asia Pacific

   Synonyms:

   Sibsongpanna, Mong Ri Mong Ram, Mungrimungram