Sakya Monastery
Sakya Monastery, also known as dPal Sa skya or Pel Sakya ("White Earth" or "Pale Earth") is a Buddhist monastery situated 25 km southeast of a bridge which is about 127 km west of Shigatse on the road to Tingri in Tibet.
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The SEG Plaza (赛格广场) is a skyscraper located at the junction of Shennan Boulevard and Hua Qiang Bei in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. Completed in 2000, it is 356m (1,168 ft) high (spire/antenna height). It is the 21st tallest in C…
Ruili
Ruili (simplified Chinese: 瑞丽; traditional Chinese: 瑞麗; pinyin: Ruìlì) is a county-level city of Dehong Prefecture, in the west of Yunnan province, People's Republic of China.
Ping Chau
Ping Chau (Chinese: 平洲) is an island in Hong Kong. It is also known as Tung Ping Chau (Chinese: 東平洲). Tung (Chinese: 東, meaning east) is prepended to the name so as to avoid possible confusion with Peng Chau, another island in Hong Kong with an iden…
Pi County
Pi County, or Pixian (simplified Chinese: 郫县; traditional Chinese: 郫縣; pinyin: Pí Xiàn), is under the administration of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, China. It is located just 10 km north-west of Chengdu's city centre. The seat of the Pi…
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) is a university located in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. It was established in October 1952. In Chinese, the university name is sometimes shortened to Nanhang (南航). The university is oper…
Mount Li
Mount Li (simplified Chinese: 骊山; traditional Chinese: 驪山; pinyin: Lí Shān) is a mountain located in the northwest of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, China. The mountain is part of the Qinling mountain range and rises to a height of 1302 metres above sea…
Lop Desert
The Lop Desert, or the Lop Depression, is a desert extending from Korla eastwards along the foot of the Kuruk-tagh (meaning Dry Mountain) to the formerly terminal Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. It is an almost perfectl…
Lamayuru Monastery
Lamayuru or Yuru Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་མ་གཡུང་དྲུང་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: bla ma gyung drung dgon pa "Eternal Monastery", Urdu: لمیرو گومپا) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in [Lehl district]], , India, situated on the Srinagar-Leh highway 15 kilometres …
Kashgar Prefecture
Kashgar Prefecture or Kashi Prefecture officially Kaxgar Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 喀什地区; traditional Chinese: 喀什地區; pinyin: Kāshí Dìqū; Uyghur: قەشقەر ۋىلايىتى, ULY: Qeshqer Wilayiti, UYY: K̡əxk̡ər Vilayiti?; also spelled Kashgar) is located …
Juyong Pass
Juyongguan or Juyong Pass (simplified Chinese: 居庸关; traditional Chinese: 居庸關; pinyin: Jūyōng Guān) is a mountain pass located in the Changping District of Beijing Municipality, over 50 kilometers (31 mi) from central Beijing.
Heshan, Guangdong
Heshan (Chinese: 鹤山) is a county-level city of Jiangmen City in the southern part of Guangdong Province, China with a total land area of 1,108.3 square kilometres (427.9 sq mi) and a population of 360,000. If migrants this figure rises to around 550…
Gurbantünggüt Desert
The Gurbantünggüt Desert (Chinese: 古尔班通古特沙漠; pinyin: Gǔ'ěrbāntōnggǔtè Shāmò) occupies a large part of the Dzungarian Basin in northern Xinjiang, in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.
Guangzhou Railway Station
Guangzhou Railway Station (Chinese: 广州火车站; Pinyin: Guǎngzhōu Huǒchēzhàn) serves the city of Guangzhou, China. It sits on the high speed Guangshen railway just west of Guangzhou East. As one of the busiest railway stations in southern China, Guangzho…
Fuzhou, Jiangxi
Fuzhou (simplified Chinese: 抚州; traditional Chinese: 撫州; pinyin: Fǔzhōu,[fùʈʂóʊ] ),Fuzhou dialect(Timtonese): Fú-Diù, also named as Gandong (lit. East of Jiangxi.
Defense of Sihang Warehouse
The defense of Sihang Warehouse (simplified Chinese: 四行仓库; traditional Chinese: 四行倉庫; pinyin: Sìháng Cāngkù) took place from October 26 to November 1, 1937, and marked the beginning of the end of the three-month Battle of Shanghai in the opening pha…
Chongqing Olympic Sports Center
The Chongqing Olympic Sports Centre Stadium (Chinese: 重庆市 奥林匹克体育中心) is a multi-purpose stadium in Chongqing, China.
Bijie
Bijie (simplified Chinese: 毕节; traditional Chinese: 畢節; pinyin: Bìjíe) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guizhou Province, China, bordering Sichuan to the north and Yunnan to the west.
Alxa League
Alxa League or Ālāshàn League is one of 12 prefecture level divisions and 3 extant leagues of Inner Mongolia. The league borders Mongolia to the north, Bayan Nur to the northeast, Wuhai and Ordos to the east, Ningxia to the southeast, and Gansu to t…
Zhujiang New Town
Zhujiang New Town (Chinese: 珠江新城; pinyin: Zhūjiāng Xīnchéng; Jyutping: zyu1 gong1 san1 seng4) is an area in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is bounded by Huangpu Avenue on the north, the Pearl River on the south, Guangzhou Avenue on the west and the…
Zhengyangmen
Qianmen (simplified Chinese: 前门; traditional Chinese: 前門; pinyin: Qiánmén; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien-men; literally: "Front Gate") is the colloquial name for Zhengyangmen (simplified Chinese: 正阳门; traditional Chinese: 正陽門; pinyin: Zhèngyángmén; Wade–Giles:…
Yongkang, Zhejiang
Yongkang (Chinese: 永康; pinyin: Yǒngkāng) is a county-level city located in the central part of Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 1,049 km2 (405 sq mi) and a population of 536,000 with more than 100,000 non-resident wor…
Yichun, Jiangxi
Yichun (Chinese: 宜春; pinyin: Yíchūn; Wade–Giles: I2-ch'un1; Postal map spelling: Ichun) is a mountainous prefecture-level city in western/northwestern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Hunan to the west. Yichun literally means …
Xuancheng
Xuancheng (Chinese: 宣城; pinyin: Xuānchéng) is a city in the southeast of Anhui province. Originally founded in 109 BCE, Xuancheng has over 2,000 years of history.
Xinyu
Xinyu (simplified Chinese: 新余; traditional Chinese: 新喻; pinyin: Xīnyú) is a prefecture-level city in west-central Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China.
Xiaogan
Xiaogan (Chinese: 孝感; pinyin: Xiàogǎn) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hubei province, People's Republic of China, some 60 kilometres (37 mi) northwest of the provincial capital of Wuhan.
Waibaidu Bridge
The Waibaidu Bridge (Chinese: 外白渡桥; pinyin: Wàibáidù Qiáo), called the Garden Bridge in English, is the first all-steel bridge, and the only surviving example of a camelback truss bridge, in China. The fourth Western-designed bridge built at its loc…
Tarim River
The Tarim River (Mandarin Tǎlǐmù Hé, 塔里木河; Uyghur: تارىم دەرياسى) is the principal river of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.
Suzhou, Anhui
Suzhou (Chinese: 宿州; pinyin: Sùzhōu) formerly Romanized as Suchow is a prefecture-level city in northern Anhui province.
Suizhou
Suizhou (simplified Chinese: 随州; traditional Chinese: 隨州; pinyin: Suízhōu), formerly Sui County (simplified Chinese: 随县; traditional Chinese: 隨縣; pinyin: Suí Xiàn), is a prefecture-level city in northern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, b…
Subi Reef
Subi Reef (10°54′48″N114°03′43″E), also known as Zhubi Reef (Chinese: 渚碧礁; pinyin: Zhǔbì Jiāo; Tagalog: Zamora; Vietnamese: đá Xu Bi) is a reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea located 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Philippine-occupied …
Qionghai
Qionghai (simplified Chinese: 琼海; traditional Chinese: 瓊海; pinyin: Qiónghǎi) is one of the 7 county-level cities of Hainan province, People's Republic of China. Although called a "city", Qionghai refers to a large land area in Hainan - an area which…
Qilian Mountains
The Qilian Mountains (Tsilien Mountains; Chinese: 祁连山; pinyin: Qílián Shān; Wade–Giles: Ch'i2-lien2 Shan1; Mongghul: Chileb), also known as Nan Shan (Chinese: 南山, literally "Southern Mountains", as it is to the south of Hexi Corridor), is a northern…
Mount Sanqing
Mount Sanqing (Chinese: 三清山; pinyin: Sānqīng Shān) is a renowned Taoist sacred mountain located 25 miles (40 km) north of Yushan County in Jiangxi Province, China with outstanding scenery.
Mission Hills Golf Club
Mission Hills Shenzhen is a twelve course 18-hole course golf resort, located in the town of Guanlan (觀瀾) in Shenzhen, between the cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan. It is accredited as the world's largest golf facility by the Guinness World Records i…
Meixian District
Meixian (simplified Chinese: 梅县; traditional Chinese: 梅縣; pinyin: méi xiàn; literally: "Plum County"), formerly Meihsien, is a district of Meizhou City, in northeastern Guangdong Province, China.