Qujing City
Qujing (Chinese: 曲靖; pinyin: Qǔjìng) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Yunnan province of southwest China. It is an important industrial city, and is Yunnan's second largest city by population, after Kunming.
Its population is 5,855,055 according to the 2010 census, of whom 659,925 reside in the built up area. Within a few years, Zhanyi county will be part of this built up area, making an agglomeration of more than 1 million inhabitants.
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