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Gejiu
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Gejiu () (; Hani: Goqjef; formerly known as Kochiu) is a county-level city in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, with 202,000 urban inhabitants (ranked 14th largest city in Yunnan). It is the site of China's largest tin deposits and its main industry is mining.

Key facts

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Gejiu
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County-level city
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Location of Gejiu City in Honghe Prefecture within Yunnan province
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China Yunnan
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Location within China
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People's Republic of China
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Yunnan
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Prefecture

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • Location
  • Layout
  • Administrative divisions
  • History
  • Landforms
  • Climate
  • Ethnography
  • Economy
  • Welfare
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

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|settlement_type = County-level city |motto =

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gejiu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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