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Zhangye National Geopark (simplified Chinese: 张掖国家地质公园; traditional Chinese: 張掖國家地質公園; pinyin: Zhāngyè Guójiā Dìzhìgōngyuán) is located in Sunan and Linze counties within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye, in Gansu, China. It covers 322 square kilometres (124 sq mi).
About 23 Ma, movement of the Himalayan range disturbed the land around the Danxia landform in the Guangdong Province of China uplifting and completely changing the topography of the area. [6] Over millions of years the steep cliffs that can be seen today, exposed by faults, were formed through weathering and erosion.
Rainbow Mountains (China) in Zhangye National Geopark within the prefecture-level city of Zhangye, in Gansu, China Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
Zhangye is served by China National Highways numbers G30 Expressway, 227 and 312. Zhangye Railway Station is on the Lanzhou–Xinjiang Railway , located to the north east of the city. A high speed railway station has been constructed on the south west side of the city, Zhangye West Railway Station was opened on 26 December 2014 as part of the ...
Mount Danxia (Chinese: 丹 霞 山; pinyin: Dānxiá Shān) is a noted scenic mountainous area in Renhua County, in the northern part of Guangdong province. It is described on the local signage as a "world famous UNESCO geopark of China".
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is part of a much larger 397.5 km 2 (153.5 sq mi) Wulingyuan Scenic Area. In 1992, Wulingyuan was officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [3] It was then approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources as Zhangjiajie Sandstone Peak Forest National Geopark (3,600 km 2 (1,400 sq mi
This is a list of the nationally designated protected areas of China.There are many forms of protected areas in China. Based on their relative importance, each type of protected area can be further graded into two to three levels (national, provincial and prefectural/county level).
Pages in category "Geoparks in China" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Zhangjiajie National Forest Park; Zhangye National Geopark;