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Panjin

Panjin is a coastal prefecture-level city in central Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, situated on the northern shore of the Liaodong Bay.

Panjin
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The place

Panjin is a coastal prefecture-level city in central Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, situated on the northern shore of the Liaodong Bay. It borders Anshan to the east, Yingkou to the southeast, and Jinzhou to the west and north. It is the smallest city in both Liaoning and the entire Northeast China with an administrative area of 3,825 square kilometres (1,477 sq mi), and Liaoning's least populous city with a population of 1,389,691 people as of the 2020 census, all in the built-up area made of the 2 urban districts and Dawa and Panshan counties now largely being conurbated.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Panjin

One place 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.

  1. 01
    Liaoning Panjin Stadium

    Panjin Red Beach Sports Centre Jinxiu Stadium or simply Panjin Jinxiu Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Panjin, China. It is currently used mostly for association football matches.

    1 km · building in Liaoning Panjin Stadium, China · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Red Beach Scenic Area (红海滩风景区 Hónghǎi Tānfēng Jǐngqū). This is a National Nature Reserve area covering 20 square kilometres. Rare birds can be found here. The site gets its name from the unusual colour of the beach seaweed which is bright red. A local delicasy is crabs. Most tours of the Red Beach will include a change to sample one of these crustations yourself.

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

Eat

Where to eat

Panjin's rice and river crab are famous. At bus and train stations one can see people taking bags of Panjin rice back home.

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

Go there

Getting to Panjin

Airports
Shenyang Taoxian (SHE), 132 km · Dalian Zhoushuizi (DLC), 243 km
  • Shenyang → Panjin
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · ¥60–80
  • Dalian (Ganjingzi) → Panjin
    249 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · ¥110–150
  • Beijing → Panjin
    498 km · quickest by road, 7h 54m · ¥220–290
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Panjin

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    558 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,671 km
  3. 03
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

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  4. 04
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,772 km
  5. 05
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

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If you know how people move in Panjin – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Panjin

Panjin is 8 km from Panshan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.