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

Yulin

Yulin, alternately romanized as Watlam, is one of the fourteen prefecture-level cities of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.

Yulin
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Yulin, alternately romanized as Watlam, is one of the fourteen prefecture-level cities of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. Its Chinese name was changed in 1956 from the historical name "鬱林", which is homophonous in Standard Mandarin, but different in the local dialect of Yue Chinese; "鬱" is while "玉" is. The former romanization follows the pronunciation of the historical name in Yue Chinese. Its built-up area is made of two urban districts, and Beiliu City was home to 2,438,467 inhabitants as of 2020 census. By the end of 2024, the city's resident population is 5,804,200, including 3,051,10 million in urban areas.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yulin

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
    Yulin Normal University

    Yulin Normal University is a four-year, undergraduate and multidisciplinary university in Yulin, Guangxi, China.

    3.1 km · university in China · Wikipedia

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Getting to Yulin

Airports
Zhanjiang Wuchuan (ZHA), 137 km · Nanning Wuxu (NNG), 205 km · Guilin Liangjiang (KWL), 286 km
Stations
Yulin Railway Station, 6.7 km
  • Zhanjiang → Yulin
    157 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · ¥70–90
  • Nanning (Jiangnan) → Yulin
    204 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · ¥90–120
  • Guilin (Lingui) → Yulin
    299 km · quickest by road, 5h 23m · ¥145–195
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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 Yulin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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