Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam.
Himalayas from southern Kashmir east to Bhutan, north-eastern India (Assam), south-eastern Tibet and southern China (south-western Sichuan, north-western Yunnan), south to northern and eastern Myanmar, northern Thailand and northern Vietnam.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Yellow-bellied Fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus) [XC789016]
by Bram Piot from Lalitpur (near Godawari), Bagmati, Central Development Region, Nepal (call, song)
Yellow-bellied Fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus) [XC791451]
by Bram Piot from Bao Shan Shi, Yun Nan Sheng, China (call)
Subspecies
Sometimes segregated in its own genus Chelidorhynx.