Mengla County


Mengla County is a county under the jurisdiction of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, in far southern Yunnan province, China. Meng is a variation of Mueang.

Name

"Mongla", "Mengla" and "Meungla" are different romanizations of the same Tai word. Thus, to differentiate Mengla County in China and Mong La Township in Myanmar, the locals call the former Greater Mengla/Mongla while the latter Lesser Mongla/Mengla.

Administrative divisions

Mengla County has 8 towns and 2 townships.
  • 8 Towns: Mengla, Mengpeng, Mengman, Menglun, Mohan, Mengban, Guanlei, and Yiwu
  • 2 Ethnic Townships: Yi Xiangming and Yao Yaoqu

    Biodiversity

, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is located in Menglun in Mengla County, covering an area of more than 1000 ha. Over 13,000 species of tropical plants are preserved in its 35 living collections.
The last Indochinese tiger in the wild in China is believed to have been killed near Mengla in 2009. The perpetrator is believed to have been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for this.
A tiny frog, Raorchestes menglaensis is only known from its type locality, Zhishihe in Mengla County.

Climate

Mengla has a humid subtropical climate with monsoonal influences closely bordering on the tropical savanna climate with strong monsoonal influences. Summer is long and there is virtually no "winter" as such; instead, there is a dry season and wet season. The coolest month is December, averaging, while the warmest is June, at ; the annual mean is. However, high temperatures reach their peak in April before the onset of the monsoon from the Indian Ocean.

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