Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau includes the eastern part of Yunnan Province, the whole province of Guizhou, the northwestern part of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the borders of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan provinces. It is the intersection of two groups of mountains in China, which run from north to south and from northeast to southwest. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast.
Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, located in the southwest of China, is one of the four plateaus in China. It starts from Hengduan Mountain and Ailao Mountain in the west, Wuling Mountain and Xuefeng Mountain in the east, Yuechengling Mountain in the southeast, Dalou Mountain on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the north, and the mountainous area bordering Guangxi and Yunnan in the south.
Location of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau:
Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is located in the middle-low latitude transition zone on the east side of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, covering the southern part of Sichuan Basin, the eastern part of Diancang Mountain-Lijiang-Ailao Mountain and the vast area of western Guangxi. In addition to most areas of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, it also includes southwest Sichuan and west Guangxi, with a length of about 1 1,000 kilometers from east to west and a width of 400-800 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of about 500,000 square kilometers.
It borders the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west, Sichuan Basin in the north, Hubei and Hunan provinces in the east and Indochina Peninsula in the south. It is the main part of China's southwest frontier, and it is also the only way for China to reach Southeast Asia and South Asia.