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Dali marble is famous throughout Asia and among collectors of gemstones all over the world. For a few square inches of Shuimohuashi, a particularly precious type of marble, dealers in Hong Kong or Shanghai can charge up to $20,000. For more than 1,000 years Dali has been known as the town of marble; indeed, the Chinese word dali means “marble ...
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Dali City is located in western Yunnan, approximately 250 km (160 mi) northwest of the provincial capital of Kunming.. Dali is situated in the transition area between the dramatic valleys of the Hengduan ranges on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau and the distinctive mountains of the western Yungui Plateau.
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Dali Town (Chinese: 大理镇; pinyin: Dàlǐ Zhèn) is a township-level division in Dali City, in the northwest of Yunnan province, China. The town contains the historic centre of the county-level city of Dali and is also commonly known as Dali Old Town ( Chinese : 大理古城 ; pinyin : Dàlǐ Gǔchéng ).
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Xiaguan (Chinese: 下关; pinyin: Xiàguān), formerly romanized as Hsiakwan, is a subdistrict at the southern end of Erhai Lake in Dali Prefecture, Yunnan, China.Xiaguan has a population of 146,517 (2020) [1] and is the modern centre of the county-level city of Dali.