Funing County (; Zhuang language: ) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the southeast of Yunnan province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of Yunnan, bordering Guangxi to the north, south and east, and Vietnam's HÃÂ Giang Province to the south.
Funing is located in the east of Wenshan Prefecture. It borders Youjiang District and Jingxi, Guangxi to the east, Napo County, Guangxi to the south, Guangnan County to the west, Xilin County and Tianlin County of Guangxi to the north, and Malipo County across the Nanli River to the southwest. It also borders the ÃÂá»Âng VÃÂn District and the Mèo Vạc District of HàGiang Province, Vietnam to the south.
Funing County has 6 towns, 6 townships and 1 ethnic township.
Ethnic groups of Funing County include the following. Population statistics are from 1990, and are sourced from the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer (1998).
The Zheyuan people of Dongbo and Guichao , Funing County, are classified as ethnic Han (You 2013:290, 361-363). They numbered 1,033 persons as of 1960, and call themselves the "Yuexi people" (), while some also refer to themselves as the Buhong . The Zheyuan people migrated from Xuanhua County , Guangxi (currently the southern banks of the Yong River , in Nanning City, Guangxi) about 150 years ago. The Zheyuan people speak a Yue Chinese dialect.
The Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer (Lu and Nong 1998) identifies the following Zhuang subgroups.
According to the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer å¯Âå®Âå¿æ°ÂæÂÂå¿ (1998), ethnic Yi numbered 11,249 as of 1991, or 3.15% of the total county population. The Zhuang exonym for the Yi is BùmÃÂng å¸Âå (also MÃÂngrén Ã¥ÂÂ人).
There are 92 villages with ethnic Yi (in 38 administrative villages), consisting of 54 pure Yi villages and 38 ethnically mixed villages.
Ethnic Yi are found in the following villages of Funing County.