Wanding Town


Wanding Town, also known as Wandingzhen and Wanting, is a frontier town in Ruili City, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China.
The town was founded in 1932; then known as Wanting, it was on the route of the Burma Road during World War II.

Geography

Wanding, with an area of and population of 13,906, lies on the Wanding River. It is about 850 km from Kunming and the nearest airport is Mangshi in Luxi City. Wanding Town has three administrative villages and six village zoning units.

Border crossing

The China–Myanmar border runs to the south of the town, the nearest Myanmar town being Pang Hseng to the south across the Wanding River. There is a border checkpoint between Wanding and Pang Hseng, which functioned as the crossing from what was then known as Burma into China on the historic Burma Road and Ledo Road, with supplies transported from India and Burma into China during World War Two.

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