Lijiang
Lijiang is a small city in Yunnan Province, China. It was once the capital of a small kingdom and is a busy world heritage listed tourist town today.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.1 es.
Photo: Luca Casartelli, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Black Dragon Pool
Black Dragon Pool is a famous pond in the scenic Jade Spring Park located at the foot of Elephant Hill, a short walk north of the Old Town of Lijiang in Yunnan province, China.Localities in the Area
Yulong
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yulong Naxi Autonomous County (玉龙纳西族自治县; Yùlóng Nàxīzú Zìzhìxiàn) is a city in Yunnan Province in China famous for its old town and handicrafts…
Lijiang Old City
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dayan, commonly called the Old Town of Lijiang is the historical center of Lijiang City, in Yunnan, China.
Lijiang
- Type: City with 1,220,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China
- Categories: prefecture-level city, human settlement, big city, million city and locality
- Location: Northwestern Yunnan, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.8596° or 26° 51' 35" northLongitude
100.225° or 100° 13' 30" eastPopulation
1,220,000Elevation
2,397 metres (7,864 feet)IATA airport code
LJGOpen Location Code
7PR2V65F+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 469623557OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1813253Wikidata ID
Q205914Lijiang Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Lijiang
- Arabic: ليجيانج
- Armenian: Լիծյան
- Armenian: Լիցզյան
- Asturian: Lijiang
- Azerbaijani: Lijiang
- Azerbaijani: Liszyan
- Basque: Lijiang
- Bavarian: Lijiang
- Bengali: লিচিয়াং
- Catalan: Lijiang
- Cebuano: Lijiang
- Chinese: Lē-kang-chhī
- Chinese: 丽江
- Chinese: 丽江市
- Chinese: 麗江
- Chinese: 麗江市
- Croatian: Lijiang
- Czech: Li-ťiang
- Danish: Lijiang
- Dutch: Lijiang
- Egyptian Arabic: ليجيانج
- English: Lijiang City
- Esperanto: Lijiang
- Estonian: Lijiang
- Finnish: Lijiang
- French: Li Jiang
- French: Lijiang
- French: Likiang
- Gan Chinese: 丽江市
- Georgian: ლიძიანი
- German: Lijiang
- German: 丽江市
- Hebrew: ליג'יאנג
- Hebrew: ליגיאנג
- Hindi: लिजिआंग, युन्नान
- Hindi: लिजिआंग
- Hungarian: Licsiang
- Indonesian: Kota Lijiang
- Indonesian: Lijiang
- Irish: Lijiang
- Italian: Lijiang
- Japanese: 麗江
- Japanese: 麗江ナシ族自治県
- Japanese: 麗江市
- Kikuyu: Lijiang
- Kirghiz: Лицзян шаары
- Korean: 려강
- Korean: 려강시
- Korean: 리장
- Korean: 리장 시
- Korean: 리장시
- Korean: 여강
- Literary Chinese: 麗江市
- Lithuanian: Lidziangas
- Malagasy: Lijiang
- Malay: Lijiang
- Min Dong Chinese: Lâ̤-gŏng
- Min Nan Chinese: Lē-kang-chhī
- Norwegian: Lijiang
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lijiang
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lijiang
- Occitan (post 1500): Lijiang
- Persian: لیجیانگ
- Pinyin: Lìjiāng
- Polish: Liciang
- Polish: Lijiang
- Portuguese: Cidade Antiga de Lijiang
- Portuguese: Lijiang
- Russian: Даянь
- Russian: Лицзян
- Scots: Lijiang
- Serbian: Лиђанг
- Serbo-Croatian: Lijiang
- Slovak: Li-ťiang
- Slovenian: Lidžjang
- Spanish: Lijiang
- Swedish: Lijiang
- Swedish: Likiang
- Tagalog: Lijiang
- Thai: ลี่เจียง
- Thai: เมืองลี่เจียง
- Thai: เมืองเก่าลี่เจียง
- Turkish: Lijiang
- Uighur: Lijyang shehiri
- Uighur: لىجياڭ شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Ліцзян
- Urdu: لیجیانگ
- Venetian: Lijiang
- Vietnamese: Lệ Giang
- Vietnamese: Thành cổ Lệ Giang
- Welsh: Lijiang
- Wu Chinese: 丽江市
- Yue Chinese: 麗江
- Li-chiang
- Likiang-hsien
- Ta-yen-chen
Other Places Named Lijiang
In the Area
- QingyuncunHamlet
- JixiangcunHamlet
- Baima CommunityVillage
- XianyuncunHamlet
- Taihe CommunityNeighbourhood
- BailongtancunHamlet
Popular Destinations in Northwestern Yunnan
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Lijiang. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.1 es.