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Leshan Giant Buddha
The world's largest stone Buddha statue at 71 meters tall, carved into a cliff face in the 8th century overlooking the confluence of three rivers.
56 km · about 65 min drive
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Meishan
Sichuan, China · Asia
About Meishan
Meishan sits on the route: 35 minutes from Wenlin, 56km from Leshan Giant Buddha.
Meishan is in Sichuan, China, with about 1.1 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Wenlin, about 30 km away.
Meishan (Chinese: 眉山; Sichuanese Pinyin: Mi2san1; local pronunciation: [mi˨˩sã˥]; pinyin: Méishān; Wade–Giles: Mei-shan), formerly known as Meizhou (眉州) or Qingzhou (青州), is a prefecture-level city of Sichuan with 2,955,219 inhabitants as of the 2020 census, of whom 1,232,648 lived in the built-up (or metro) areaRead more
made up of the two urban districts of Dongpo and Pengshan. Meishan is located in the southwest of Sichuan Basin.
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Within an hour or so of Meishan: Leshan Giant Buddha (56 km).
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Meishan is in Sichuan, China, about 30 km from Wenlin.
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- Population
- 1,107,742
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Sichuan
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 30.0439, 103.8370
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