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Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County

autonomous county

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ1152620 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 兰坪白族普米族自治县; traditional Chinese: 蘭坪白族普米族自治縣; pinyin: Lánpíng Báizú Pǔmǐzú Zìzhìxiàn; Bai: Ketdant Baifcuf Pupmipcuf zibzibxiand) is located in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

Administrative divisions

Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County has 1 subdistrict, 3 towns and 4 townships.

1 subdistrict

Cuiping Subdistrict (翠屏街道)

4 towns

Jinding (金顶镇)

Lajing (啦井镇)

Yingpan (营盘镇)

Tongdian (通甸镇)

4 townships

Hexi (河西乡)

Zhongpai (中排乡)

Shideng (石登乡)

Tu'e (兔峨乡)

Climate

Like most of Yunnan, Lanping has a dry-winter subtropical highland climate (Köppen climate classification: Cwb).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County” as autonomous county. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 89-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lanping, Pumi and Autonomous can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as autonomous county. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1152620. VIAF identifies the subject as 130356318. The Library of Congress control number is n97029488. Authority coordinates are 26.457, 99.421. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County primary sources, Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County archive and Lanping research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.