Shilin
Shilin karst region, the "Stone Forest", is a national park in Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan province in southern China. The huge pillars of stone, formed by erosion, look like something out of a fantasy film.- Type: City with 131,000 residents
- Description: autonomous county
- Also known as: “Autonomer Kreis Shilin der Yi”, “Comte autonome yi de Shilin”, “Comté autonome yi de Shilin”, “Huyện tự trị dân tộc Di Thạch Lâm”, “Lu-nan Yi Autonomous Hsien”, “Lu-nan-i-tsu Tzu-chih-hsien”, “Lunan Yizu Zizhixian”, “Shilin County”, “Shilin Yi Autonomous County”, “Shilin Yizu zizhixian”, “路南县”, and “路南彝族自治县”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shilin Confucian Temple and Shilin Yi Autonomous County No.1 High School.
Shilin
- Categories: autonomous county and locality
- Location: Kunming, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.7568° or 24° 45′ 24″ north
Longitude
103.2717° or 103° 16′ 18″ east
Population
131,000
Elevation
1,874 metres (6,148 feet)
Open location code
7PP5Q74C+PM
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Shilin” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shilin Yi konderri autonomoa”
- Cebuano: “Shilin Yizu Zizhixian”
- Chinese: “Shílín Xiàn”
- Chinese: “石林”
- Chinese: “石林县”
- Chinese: “石林彝族自治县”
- Chinese: “石林彝族自治縣”
- Dutch: “Shilin Yi Autonomous County”
- French: “Shilin”
- French: “Xian autonome yi de Shilin”
- Gan Chinese: “石林彝族自治县”
- German: “Shilin”
- Italian: “Contea autonoma yi di Shilin”
- Japanese: “石林イ族自治県”
- Korean: “스린 이족 자치현”
- Korean: “스린현”
- Literary Chinese: “石林彝族自治縣”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chio̍h-lîm Î-cho̍k Chū-tī-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shilin Yi”
- Norwegian: “Shilin Yi”
- Russian: “Шилинь-Ийский автономный уезд”
- Scots: “Shilin Yi Autonomous Coonty”
- Spanish: “Shilin”
- Swedish: “Shilin, Kunming”
- Swedish: “Shilin”
- Ukrainian: “Шилінь-Їський автономний повіт”
- Urdu: “شیلین یی خود مختار کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Thạch Lâm, Côn Minh”
- Vietnamese: “Thạch Lâm”
- Wu Chinese: “石林彝族自治县”
- Yue Chinese: “石林”
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