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Where are the Yi people mainly distributed in Guizhou?

According to the information of official website, the People's Government of Guizhou Province, the Yi nationality is a nation formed by the continuous integration of the ancient Qiang nationality and the southwest indigenous tribes in the long-term development process. Mainly distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou. According to the statistics of the sixth census, there are 83. 450,000 people, accounting for 2. 4%, accounting for 6. 65%, mainly living in Bijie City and Liupanshui City in northwest Guizhou, and some Yi people live in Anshun City, Guiyang City and Southwest Guizhou. Guizhou, referred to as "Qian" or "Gui" for short, is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Guiyang as the capital. It connects Sichuan and Chongqing in the north, Hunan Province in the east, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the south and Yunnan Province in the west. The territory is high in the west and low in the east, and inclines from the middle to the north, east and south. Known as "eight mountains, one water and one field", it belongs to subtropical monsoon climate. Total area of the province 17. 620,000 square kilometers, * * * has 6 prefecture-level cities and 3 autonomous prefectures.