As of February 18, 2023, Xishuangbanna is a fifth-tier city.

Xishuangbanna is located at latitude 21°10′-22°40′ north and longitude 99°55′-101°50′ east, on the northern edge of the tropics south of the Tropic of Cancer. There are 19,096 square kilometers of land, bordering Pu'er City in the northeast and northwest, Laos in the southeast, and Myanmar in the southwest, with a national border of 966.3 kilometers.

The highest point in the state is the slippery bamboo beam in Mengsong Township, Menghai County, with an elevation of 2,429 meters, and the lowest point is the confluence of the Lancang River and the Nanla River, with an elevation of 477 meters. The state has three counties and cities, 30 townships and 3 street offices, 12 farms, 211 administrative villages, 130 communities, 2102 villagers' groups, 352 residents' groups, and 6 central and provincial scientific research units. Confluence.

Calculation method of the fifth-tier cities:

Based on the commercial store data of 170 mainstream consumer brands and the user behavior data of 18 head Internet companies in various fields and the urban big data of the data agencies in 2018, according to the degree of concentration of commercial resources, urban hubs, the activity of urbanites, the diversity of lifestyles and the The algorithm evaluates 337 Chinese cities at prefecture level and above according to five indices: agglomeration of commercial resources, activity of urbanites, diversity of lifestyles, and plasticity of the future.

The algorithm is also consistent with the previous one: a committee of experts from the Institute of Integrated New Tier 1 Cities (INTAC) combined the scores and principal component analysis to arrive at the final results. Throughout the algorithmic framework, the data that make up the Tier 1 index come from 19 Tier 2 dimensions and 79 Tier 3 dimensions - expanding to the Tier 4 dimensions, the number of indicators has exceeded 100.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Fifth-tier Cities