Round 1: Tossup 19

A rhyming list of this province’s “Eighteen Oddities” advertises large mosquitoes, eggs sold in grass nets, and its karst Stone Forest. The (15[1])world’s most productive tobacco industry is mostly supplied by this province. Prized mushrooms like the ganba grow among the “Three Parallel Rivers” of this province’s climate-diverse northwest. (15[1])Land reclamation in this province has filled in part of (*) Diān Lake. Growers around this province’s Jǐngmài Mountain developed a fermented product that is compressed into cakes and named for its town of Pu’er. (-5[1])Kūnmíng is the capital of this province, (10[1])where a majority of Bái and about half of all Yí people live, along with Guìzhōu (“gway joh”) to the northeast and Sìchuān to the north. For 10 points, a plurality of China’s tea comes from what mountainous province on the southwestern border with Myanmar? ■END■ (10[1])

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