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Prefecture-level city in Ningxia, People's Republic of China

Guyuan

Guyuan, formerly known as Xihaigu or Dayuan (大原), is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

Guyuan
Guyuan · NMOS332 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
The place

Guyuan, formerly known as Xihaigu or Dayuan (大原), is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It occupies the southernmost section of the region, bordering Gansu province to the east, south, and due west. This is also the site of Mount Sumeru Grottoes (须弥山), which is among the ten most famous grottoes in China. As of the end of 2018, the total resident population in Guyuan was 1,124,200. At the end of 2024, the city's resident population was 1,140,800, a decrease of 6,900 compared with the end of the previous year. Among them, the resident population in urban areas was 535,600, accounting for 46.95% of the resident population, an increase of 1.29 percentage points over the end of the previous year.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What Wikivoyage says to see

Xumi Mountain Grottoes. During the Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, more than 130 grottoes were tunneled into the eastern side of Sumeru Shan. Filled with Buddhist sculptures and almost 1400 years old.

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    Guyuan Museum

From Wikivoyage: Guyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

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Getting to Guyuan

Airports
Lanzhou Zhongchuan (LHW), 243 km · Yinchuan Hedong (INC), 257 km · Xi'an Xianyang (XIY), 287 km
Stations
Guyuan Liupanshan Airport, 8.1 km
  • Lanzhou (Yongdeng) → Guyuan
    282 km · quickest by road, 5h 38m · ¥155–205
  • Yinchuan → Guyuan
    274 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · ¥125–165
  • Xi'an → Guyuan
    309 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · ¥145–195
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No local-transport research exists yet for Guyuan

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 Guyuan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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