Guangyuan
Guangyuan is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province, China, bordering the provinces of Shaanxi to the northeast and Gansu to the northwest.
Guangyuan is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province, China, bordering the provinces of Shaanxi to the northeast and Gansu to the northwest. Guangyuan City is located on the northern edge of the Sichuan Basin, on the upper reaches of the Jialing River, and is the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. The city has a population of 2,305,657 as of the 2020 census. By the end of 2024, the registered population of the city will be 2,893,700. Among them, the urban population is 814,800 and the rural population is 2.078,800, accounting for 28.2% and 71.8% of the total population respectively.
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Worth seeing in and around Guangyuan
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Huangze Temple
Huangze Temple is a Buddhist temple west of Guangyuan, along the banks of the Jialing River and at the foot of Wulong Mountain. It is the only temple that is dedicated to Wu Zetian.
3.2 km · Buddhist temple near Guangyuan, China · Wikipedia - 02Thousand-Buddha Cliff (Guangyuan)
Guangyuan Thousand-Buddha Cliff is located 4 km north of the Guangyuan city, on the eastern bank of the Jialing River. The carving of Buddha statues on the cliff began during the late Northern Wei period and continued through subsequent dynasties, with the majority of the carvings made during the Tang Dynasty.
3.9 km · Major Historical and Cultural Site of China in Guangyuan, China · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Ancient Town of Zhaohua
- 02Jueyuan Temple
- 03Huangze Temple Cliff Statue
- 04Thousand-Buddha
- 05Jianmen Pass Scenic Area
- 06Guangyuan Museum
Guangyuan Museum display content set three exhibition halls 11 units, each exhibition hall highlights a theme.
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Things to do
Guangyuan offers a mix of Buddhist culture, mountain hiking, riverside leisure, and historical sightseeing, suitable for both short city walks and full-day excursions into nature. = =
- 01Zengjia Mountain Hot Spring
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Where to eat
- 01Tengji Vegetable Market Old Hot Pot
- 02Yingkesong Fresh Fish Restaurant
- 03Nan Hotpot
- 04Zhao Xiao Chu Jianghu Cuisine
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Getting to Guangyuan
- Airports
- Chengdu Tianfu (TFU), 271 km · Chengdu Shuangliu (CTU), 276 km
- Stations
- Guangyuan Railway Station, 3.1 km
- Chengdu (Jianyang) → Guangyuan258 km · quickest by road, 4h 39m · ¥125–165
- Chengdu (Shuangliu) → Guangyuan275 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · ¥120–160
- Chongqing → Guangyuan328 km · quickest by road, 5h 36m · ¥150–200
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Guangyuan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Guangyuan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Guangyuan
- Gongnongtown in Sichuan, People's Republic of China5.4 km