landmark
Gulangyu Island
A UNESCO car-free island off Xiamen with colonial-era architecture, the Piano Museum, and winding alleyways through a garden settlement.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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Zhangzhou
Fujian, China · Asia
About Zhangzhou
Zhangzhou sits on the route: 25 minutes from Wu’an, 42km from Gulangyu Island.
Zhangzhou is in Fujian, China, with about 590,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Wu’an, about 14 km away.
Zhangzhou (, Mandarin: [ʈʂáŋ.ʈʂóʊ]) is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China. The prefecture around the city proper comprises the southeast corner of the province, facing the Taiwan Strait and (with Quanzhou) surrounding the prefecture of Xiamen.
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Within an hour or so of Zhangzhou: Gulangyu Island (42 km).
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Zhangzhou is in Fujian, China, about 14 km from Wu’an.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 589,831
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Fujian
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 24.5133, 117.6556
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