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Country guide

China

A photograph of China
Photograph · Severin.stalder · CC BY-SA 3.0

China covers 9.6 million km², third largest of any country, and holds more than 1.4 billion people — about 17 per cent of everyone alive. It is divided into 33 province-level divisions, two of them special administrative regions. Beijing is the capital; Shanghai is the most populous city by urban area. Between them the land runs from the Central Plain and the Yangtze and Yellow rivers out to desert, plateau, subtropical and temperate forest, and the Himalayas in the southwest. The first decision a visitor makes here is therefore not which sight to see but which climate to travel in.

Cities

Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.

Practical information

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Planning a visit

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Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  1. A Symphony of Lights
    02 45 min

    A Symphony of Lights

    A Symphony of Lights is not a building a visitor enters. It is a nightly light and sound show staged across Victoria Harbour, and the map point that carries this page marks a viewing position rather than a venue.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  2. Central–Mid-levels escalators
    04 45 min

    Central–Mid-levels escalators

    The Central to Mid-Levels Escalator and Walkway System is a piece of public transport infrastructure that happens to have become a sight.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  3. The Cenotaph
    05 45 min

    The Cenotaph

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  4. Lo Pan Temple
    07 45 min

    Lo Pan Temple

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  5. Lui Seng Chun
    09 45 min

    Lui Seng Chun

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  6. King Yin Lei
    12 45 min

    King Yin Lei

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  7. Lan Kwai Fong
    13 45 min

    Lan Kwai Fong

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  8. Fan Lau Fort
    14 45 min

    Fan Lau Fort

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  9. Béthanie
    17 45 min

    Béthanie

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  10. Noonday Gun
    22 45 min

    Noonday Gun

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  11. Statue Square
    29 45 min

    Statue Square

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  12. Island House
    33 45 min

    Island House

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  13. PMQ
    42 45 min

    PMQ

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  14. Dragon's Back
    43 45 min

    Dragon's Back

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  15. So Lo Pun
    48 45 min

    So Lo Pun

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  16. Bride's Pool
    51 45 min

    Bride's Pool

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  17. Garden Road
    52 45 min

    Garden Road

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  18. The Peak
    54 45 min

    The Peak

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  19. Stone House
    59 45 min

    Stone House

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  20. Shek Pai Wan
    60 45 min

    Shek Pai Wan

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  21. Au Pui Wan
    65 45 min

    Au Pui Wan

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  22. Tam Kon Shan
    67 45 min

    Tam Kon Shan

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  23. Shan Mei
    72 45 min

    Shan Mei

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  24. Felix Villas
    77 45 min

    Felix Villas

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  25. Ha Fa Shan
    93 45 min

    Ha Fa Shan

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong
  26. Ngong Wo
    95 45 min

    Ngong Wo

    • High
    • Historic monument
    • Hong Kong

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikidata ·