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Jiangnan

Jiangnan is a geographic area in East China referring to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the southern part of its delta.

Jiangnan
Jiangnan · Diego Delso
The place

Jiangnan is a geographic area in East China referring to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the southern part of its delta. The region encompasses Shanghai, the southeast Jiangsu, the southeast Anhui, a tiny part of northeast Jiangxi, and Zhejiang Province. The most important cities in the area include Ningbo, Anqing, Changzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Suzhou, Wuxi, and Wenzhou.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Jiangnan

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
    Changshou Bridge

    The Changshou Yangtze River Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Yangtze River in the Changshou District of Chongqing, China. Bridge construction began in 2005 and the bridge was completed in 2009.

    3.2 km · bridge in People's Republic of 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.

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Getting to Jiangnan

Airports
Chongqing Jiangbei (CKG), 38 km · Chengdu Tianfu (TFU), 256 km
  • Chengdu (Jianyang) → Jiangnan
    248 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · ¥120–160
  • Chengdu (Shuangliu) → Jiangnan
    309 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · ¥145–190
  • Zhangjiajie (Yongding) → Jiangnan
    341 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · ¥470–720
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Jiangnan

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 Jiangnan. 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
    Tiger Leaping Gorge and QiaotouCN

    10 ways of moving, 22 sources

    732 km
  2. 02
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    886 km
  3. 03
    Luang NamthaLA

    12 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,129 km
  4. 04
    Luang PrabangLA

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,208 km
  5. 05
    Huay XaiLA

    12 ways of moving, 48 sources

    1,251 km

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

Around it

Next door to Jiangnan

Jiangnan is 53 km from Chongqing, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.