Mengzi City

Mengzi 蒙自市 · Maoqziif Siif
County-level city
South Lake, Bisezhai Station Yingzhou Pavillion, Xin'ansuo Ancient Buildings
Mengzi Location in Yunnan Show map of Yunnan Mengzi Mengzi (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Mengzi City government): 23°23′46″N 103°21′54″E / 23.3961°N 103.3649°E / 23.3961; 103.3649
Country	China
Province	Yunnan
Autonomous prefecture	Honghe
Municipal seat	Guanlan Subdistrict
Area
• Total	2,172 km2 (839 sq mi)
Elevation	1,310 m (4,300 ft)
Population  (2020 census)[1]
• Total	585,976
• Density	270/km2 (700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	661100
Area code	0873
Climate	Cwa
Website	www.hhmz.gov.cn

Mengzi (Chinese: 蒙自; pinyin: Méngzì; Hani: Maoqziif Siif) is a city in the southeast of Yunnan Province, China.^[2] Administratively, it is a county-level city and the prefectural capital of the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, located about 243 kilometres (151 mi) southeast from Kunming, and 400 kilometres northwest from Hanoi, Vietnam.^[3] It is situated in the centre of a fertile valley basin on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau^[2] 1,310 metres (4,300 ft) above the sea level and was home to about 590,300 inhabitants as of 2021 census.^[4] Mengzi was formerly Mengzi County (蒙自县) until October 2010, when it was upgraded to a county-level city.^[5] Mengzi is the core area of South Yunnan Central City Cluster, which is officially regarded as the political, economic, cultural, and military centre of South Yunnan.