Qujing, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, is located in the east of Yunnan Province, at the source of the Pearl River, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, with Xingyi City in Guizhou Province in the east, Honghe Prefecture in Wenshan Prefecture in the south, Kunming City in the west and Zhaotong City in the north, with an area of 2.89 kilometers away from Kunming, the provincial capital.

Qujing is located in the Wumeng Mountains in the transition zone from the eastern Yunnan Plateau to the western Guizhou Plateau in the middle of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. It is embedded in the lake basin of the central Yunnan Plateau in the west, and gradually transits to the Guizhou Plateau in the east. The middle part is the watershed between the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, with high terrain in the northwest and low terrain in the southeast. There are eight unique languages, costumes, customs and beliefs of Yi, Buyi, Zhuang, Miao and Yao.

Human landscape:

Qujing City holds Luoping Rape Flower Tourism Festival, Lvliang Large-scale International Sand Sculpture Festival, Zhanyi Pearl River Source Tourism Festival, Kirin Culture and Customs Tourism Festival, Xuanwei Ham Culture and Food Festival, Huize Seaweed Mountain Festival and Tourism Festival every year.