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

Shuozhou

Shuozhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest.

Shuozhou
Shuozhou · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Shuozhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest. It is situated along the upper reaches of the Fen River. The prefecture as a whole has an area of about 10,662 km2 (4,117 sq mi) and, in 2010, a population of about 1.71 million.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shuozhou

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.

  1. 01
    Cathedral of Shuozhou

    The Cathedral of Our Lady, Shuozhou is the cathedral of Shuozhou in Shanxi, China.

    1 km · church building in Cathedral of Shuozhou, China · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shengtou Power Station

    Shengtou Power Station or Shentou power station is a large coal-fired power station in China. The plant was initially owned by China Power Investment Corporation.

    9.4 km · building in 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.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Pagoda of Fogong Temple

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

Go there

Getting to Shuozhou

Airports
Datong Yungang (DAT), 121 km · Hohhot Baita (HET), 177 km · Taiyuan Wusu (TYN), 177 km
  • Datong → Shuozhou
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · ¥55–70
  • Hohhot → Shuozhou
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · ¥90–120
  • Taiyuan → Shuozhou
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · ¥80–110
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shuozhou

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 Shuozhou. 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

    1,237 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,620 km
  3. 03
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,746 km
  4. 04
    Tiger Leaping Gorge and QiaotouCN

    10 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,762 km
  5. 05
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,995 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shuozhou