Zhangye wetlands park and museum
Zhangye wetlands park and museum is a museum in Zhangye, Gansu.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Reclined Buddah Temple.
Reclined Buddah Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Leuband, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dafo Temple or Great Buddha Temple is a Buddhist temple in Zhangye, Gansu, China, notable for its gigantic reclining Buddha statue made around 1100 during the Western Xia period, which is thirty-five metres long and is reputedly the largest reclining Buddha clay statue in China. Reclined Buddah Temple is situated 3½ km south of Zhangye wetlands park and museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zhangye.
Zhangye
Photo: Dcpeets, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zhangye, formerly romanized as Changyeh and also formerly known as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China.
Zhangye wetlands park and museum
- Type: Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Zhangye, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.96287° or 38° 57′ 46″ northLongitude
100.45006° or 100° 27′ 0″ eastOpen location code
8PC2XF72+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 7005251985OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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In Other Languages
“Zhangye wetlands park and museum” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “张掖湿地博物馆”
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