Browse China, province by province.

Guangdong is China's southern gateway and most economically dynamic province, linking Hong Kong and Macau through the Greater Bay Area. Travelers come for Cantonese cuisine, Lingnan culture, coastal scenery, and theme-park clusters, while route planners can stitch together three very different travel styles: the Pearl River Delta urban belt, the Hakka and Danxia mountain interior, and the Chaoshan food-and-coast corridor in the east.

cities

21

5A sites

16

A-grade total

238

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Chongqing is a directly-administered municipality carved between the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, ringed by steep mountains that produce the city's famous nightscapes. Travelers come for the central-core food and river-view districts, the UNESCO-listed Wulong karst, the Dazu Rock Carvings, and the gateway views to the Three Gorges. Because Chongqing has no city-tier, districts and counties replace the city layer used elsewhere in this guide.

districts

30

5A sites

12

A-grade total

183

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Zhejiang is one of China's wealthiest eastern coastal provinces, packed into a compact triangle between Shanghai and the Pacific. The province layers classical Jiangnan water-town scenery (West Lake, Wuzhen, Nanxun), Buddhist sacred mountains (Putuo, Tiantai, Xuedou), and a long Pacific coastline with islands and seafood. Most routes blend Hangzhou (often the entry) with two more cities: Shaoxing for Lu Xun and yellow wine, Ningbo-Tiantai for temple culture, Wenzhou-Yongjia for mountain valleys, or Zhoushan for the Putuo pilgrimage.

cities

11

5A sites

21

A-grade total

172

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