Zhangjiajie Travel Guide
Overview
Chinese name: 张家界 zhāng jiā jiè
English name: Zhangjiajie
Administration: 2 districts (Yongding, Wulingyuan) and 2 counties (Cili, Sangzhi)
Location: Northwest Hunan Province
Area: 9533 square kilometers
Population: 1.504 million (2022)
Nationality: Tujia, Miao, Bai, Dong, Han.
City seat: Yongding District
Zhangjiajie is one of the most important tourism cities in China. As the smallest prefecture-level city of Hunan Province., It was founded in August,1988, and was formerly named "Dayong".
Located in the northwest of Hunan Province, Zhangjiajie lies the middle-upper reach of Lishui River of the hinterland of Wuling Mountainous. As a tourism city, Zhangjiajie is regarded as not only an opening window of Hunan but also a beautiful card of China. With its natural and unique scenery, Zhangjiajie is known as "an expanded bonsai, a shrunken fairyland" to attract more and more tourists from home and abroad.
