Coal for smelting is supplied to the city from nearby Kaiyuan to the north, located on the rail line to Kunming.
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Gejiu is located on top of a mountain to the north of the Red River (pinyin Hong He) valley, which flows from Tibet to Vietnam.
For example, Colonial French and English had been active at sites in neighbouring northern Laos, Vietnam and Burma, and even inside of modern Yunnan at sites like Tengchong and Gejiu.
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In fact, between 1904 and 1909 the French had built the 885 km long Sino-Vietnamese Railway which ran from Hanoi to Kunming via Hekou, with an offshoot to Gejiu.
It is a blind, subterranean fish found in underground river in Gejiu, Yunnan.
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