Yunnan
Kunming Prefecture
Kunming

Shilin

Shilin karst region, the "Stone Forest", is a national park in , province in southern China. The huge pillars of stone, formed by erosion, look like something out of a fantasy film.
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  • Type: City with 131,000 residents
  • Description: autonomous county
  • Also known as: “Lu-nan Yi Autonomous Hsien”, “Lu-nan-i-tsu Tzu-chih-hsien”, “Lunan Yizu Zizhixian”, “Shilin County”, and “Shilin Yi Autonomous County”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shilin Yi Autonomous County No.1 High School and Shilin Confucian Temple.

School
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Monument
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a monument.

Shilin

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
Open­Street­Map ID
node 469624504
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1802011
Wiki­data ID
Q1354733
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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: “Chio̍h-lîm Î-cho̍k Chū-tī-koān”
  • 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”
  • Chinese: “路南县”
  • Chinese: “路南彝族自治县”
  • Dutch: “Shilin Yi Autonomous County”
  • French: “Comte autonome yi de Shilin”
  • French: “Comté autonome yi de Shilin”
  • French: “Shilin”
  • French: “Xian autonome yi de Shilin”
  • Gan Chinese: “石林彝族自治县”
  • German: “Autonomer Kreis Shilin der Yi”
  • German: “Shilin Yizu zizhixian”
  • German: “Shilin”
  • German: “石林彝族自治县”
  • Italian: “Contea autonoma yi di Shilin”
  • Japanese: “石林”
  • 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 Bokmål: “Shilin”
  • 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: “Huyện tự trị dân tộc Di Thạch Lâm”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Shilin”. Photo: Pieter Schepens, CC BY 2.0.