Shangri-La, Yunnan

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Shangri-La 香格里拉市 · སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
County-level city
Location of Shangri-La (red) in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (pink) within Yunnan
Shangri-La Location of the county seat in Yunnan
Coordinates (Diqing Prefecture government): 27°50′45″N 99°44′32″E / 27.84583°N 99.74222°E / 27.84583; 99.74222
Country	China
Province	Yunnan
Autonomous prefecture	Diqing
Municipal seat	Gyalthang Town
Area
• Total	11,613 km2 (4,484 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	3,160 m (10,370 ft)
Population  (2020 census)[2]
• Total	186,412
• Density	16/km2 (42/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	674400
Area code	0887
Website	xianggelila.diqing.gov.cn

Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā; Tibetan: སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།) is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, China, named after the mythical land depicted in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon. It is the capital and largest city of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is bordered by the city of Lijiang to the south and Sichuan province to the northwest, north, and east.