| Mengla County | |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Mapsize: | 250px |
| Pushpin Map: | Yunnan |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the seat in Yunnan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Yunnan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Autonomous prefecture |
| Subdivision Name2: | Xishuangbanna |
| Subdivision Type3: | GB/T 2260 CODE[1] |
| Subdivision Name3: | 532823 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Mengla |
| Area Total Km2: | 7056 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 census |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 304950 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
| Coor Pinpoint: | Mengla government |
| Coordinates: | 21.459°N 101.564°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 666300[3] |
| Area Code: | 0691 |
| Footnotes: | 1Yunnan Statistics Bureau http://www.stats.yn.gov.cn/ 2Xishuangbanna Gov. http://www.xsbn.gov.cn/ 3Yunnan Portal http://www.yn.gov.cn/ |
Mengla County (; Tai Lue: ᦵᦙᦲᧂ ᦟᦱᧉ ᦶᦉᧃᧈ, Mueang La; my|မိုးလား, lo|ເມືອງລ້າ; th|เมืองล้า) is a county under the jurisdiction of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, in far southern Yunnan province, China. Meng is a variation of Mueang.
"Mongla", "Mengla" and "Meungla" are different romanizations of the same Tai word. Thus, to differentiate Mengla County in China and Mong La Township in Myanmar, the locals call the former Greater Mengla/Mongla while the latter Lesser Mongla/Mengla.
Mengla County has 8 towns and 2 townships.[4]
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is located in Menglun in Mengla County, covering an area of more than 1000 ha. Over 13,000 species of tropical plants are preserved in its 35 living collections.[5]
The last Indochinese tiger in the wild in China is believed to have been killed near Mengla in 2009. The perpetrator is believed to have been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for this.
A tiny frog, Raorchestes menglaensis (known as the Zhishihe's bubble-nest frog or Mengla small treefrog) is only known from its type locality, Zhishihe in Mengla County.[6]
Mengla has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa) bordering on a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) with strong monsoonal influences. Summer is long and there is virtually no "winter" as such; instead, there is a dry season (December-April) and wet season (May-October). The coolest month is December, averaging 18.4°C, while the warmest is June, at 26.7°C; the annual mean is 23.4°C. However, high temperatures reach their peak in April before the onset of the monsoon from the Indian Ocean.