Shilin Stone Forest Landscape District
The Stone Forest or Shilin is a notable set of limestone formations about 500 km2 in area located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan, China. The forest is approximately 90 km east of the provincial capital Kunming.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: Formation of sharp limestone pillars created by calcium carbonate dissolution
- Also known as: “Bosque de Piedra de Shilin”, “Shilin karst”, “Shilin Karst”, “Silin kőerdő”, “Stone Forest”, “غابة شيلين”, “云南昆明石林管理局”, “云南石林”, “云南石林风景区”, “石林世界地质公园”, “石林国家地质公园”, “石林岩溶峰林国家地质公园”, “石森”, “路南石林”, and “路南石林风景名胜区”
Shilin Stone Forest Landscape District
- Categories: protected area, geopark, Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction, UNESCO Global Geopark, tourism, recreation area, and tourist attraction
- Location: Kunming, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.8163° or 24° 48′ 59″ north
Longitude
103.3225° or 103° 19′ 21″ east
Open location code
7PP5R88F+G2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Shilin Stone Forest Landscape District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غابة الأحجار”
- Armenian: “Քարե անտառ”
- Asturian: “Karst de Shilin”
- Bengali: “পাথরের বন”
- Burmese: “ကျောက်တုံးဥယျာဉ်”
- Catalan: “Bosc de pedra de Shilin”
- Chinese: “Shílín fēngjǐng qū”
- Chinese: “石林风景区”
- Chinese: “石林风景名胜区”
- Chinese: “雲南石林”
- Czech: “Shilin”
- Dutch: “Stone Forest”
- French: “Forêt de pierres de Shilin”
- French: “Forêt de Pierres de Shilin”
- French: “Karst de Shilin”
- Galician: “Karst de Shilin”
- Georgian: “ქვის ტყე”
- German: “Shilin Steınwald”
- German: “Steinwald von Shilin”
- Hausa: “Stone Forest”
- Hungarian: “Kőerdő”
- Italian: “Foresta di pietra”
- Japanese: “石林”
- Korean: “윈난스린”
- Persian: “جنگل سنگی”
- Polish: “Kamienny Las”
- Pushto: “تيږو ځنګل”
- Romanian: “Pădurea de piatră”
- Slovak: “Kamenný les Shilin”
- Slovenian: “Kamniti gozd”
- Spanish: “Karst de Shilin”
- Swedish: “Shilin”
- Turkish: “Taş Ormanı”
- Ukrainian: “Шилінь”
- Vietnamese: “Thạch Lâm”
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