Yunnan, the extreme south-western province of the Chinese Empire; is fertile particularly in the S.; yields large quantities of maize, rice, tobacco, sugar, and especially opium, and abounds in mineral wealth, including gold, silver, mercury, as well as iron, copper, and lead; the country was long a prey to revolt against the Chinese rule, but it is now, after a war of extermination against the rebels, the Panthays, the Burmese, reduced to order.
Population (circa 1900) given as 4,000,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Yung-ling * Yuste, St.