Kunming, Yunnan

China

Kunming, Yunnan connects through 266 Bunkabop connections with 10429 other places across 24 topics, with history and military threads dominating. Its profile reflects the city's role as a wartime hub: the Han dynasty incorporated the surrounding Dian Kingdom in 109 BC, and the 20th century drew in ties to the United States, Japan, and Vietnam. France also features through the Kunming-Haiphong railway, a late-19th-century line linking Kunming to French Indochina that became the site of a suppressed labor uprising in the 1890s. The city also serves as a rail convergence point for lines arriving from multiple Chinese provinces.