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 running north-south and northeast-southwest in China, with high terrain in the northwest and low terrain in the southeast.
Located in the southwest of China, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is one of the four plateaus in China. It starts from Hengduan Mountain and Ailao Mountain in the west, reaches Wuling Mountain and Xuefeng Mountain in the east, reaches Yuechengling Mountain in the southeast, reaches Dalou Mountain on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the north, and reaches the mountains on the border between 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, which covers the south of Sichuan Basin, the east of Diancang Mountain-Lijiang-Ailao Mountain and the vast area of western Guangxi. Besides most areas of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, it also includes southwest Sichuan and western Guangxi, with a length of about 1000 km from east to west and a width of 400-800 km 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 Indo-China Peninsula in the south. It is the main part of China's southwest frontier, and it is also the necessary area for China to reach Southeast Asia and South Asia.