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.