landmark
Fenghuang (Phoenix Ancient Town)
A perfectly preserved Ming and Qing Dynasty riverside town with stilted wooden houses reflected in the Tuojiang River amid misty Hunan mountains.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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Tongren
Guizhou, China · Asia
About Tongren
Tongren sits on the route: 30 minutes from Chadian, 55km from Fanjingshan (Mount Fanjing).
Tongren is in Guizhou, China, with about 91,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Chadian, about 16 km away.
Tongren (simplified Chinese: 铜仁; traditional Chinese: 銅仁; pinyin: Tóngrén) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, located within a tobacco planting and crop agricultural area. Tongren was known as Tongren Prefecture (铜仁地区) until November 2011, when it was converted into aRead more
prefecture-level city. By the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, Tongren City had a permanent population of 3.1615 million and a registered population of 4.494 million.
Tongren City borders Hunan to the east and Chongqing to the north, and is known as the "Gateway to Eastern Guizhou". The city covers an area of 18,000 square kilometers, and has jurisdiction over 2 districts, 8 counties, 8 provincial economic development zones, 2 provincial high-tech industrial development zones, and 1 provincial health and medicine industry demonstration zone.
Tongren is the location of Fanjingshan (Mount Fanjing), a mountain of significance in Buddhism and the highest peak of the Wuling Mountains, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018. The surrounding national nature reserve is the only natural habitat of the endangered Guizhou snub-nosed monkey. Additionally, the city's Wanshan District was historically known as the "Cinnabar Capital of China" due to its mercury and cinnabar mining.
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Within an hour or so of Tongren: Fenghuang (Phoenix Ancient Town) (48 km), Fanjingshan (Mount Fanjing) (55 km).
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Tongren is in Guizhou, China, about 16 km from Chadian.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 90,593
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Guizhou
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 27.7172, 109.1853
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2 notable places within an hour's drive.
natural wonder
Fanjingshan (Mount Fanjing)
A UNESCO sacred Buddhist mountain crowned by the surreal Mushroom Rock and two temples perched on a knife-edge pinnacle above the clouds.
55 km · about 65 min drive
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- 80 kmAizhai BridgeA vast suspension bridge hung 355 m above the Dehang Canyon in Hunan, leaping a gorge that once took 30 minutes of hairpins to cross: a spectacular stop on the G65 expressway.
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