Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan
Also known as Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Category
Cultural
Inscribed under criteria (ii), (iii), (v), (vi).
Region
Asia and the Pacific
China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
Inscribed
2014
Area
42,668 ha
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Location
Where it sits, and what is around it
Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan is about 4 km north-west of Xian. The nearest other World Heritage site is Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, about 35 km away.
Nearest towns and cities
- Xian · about 4,009,000 peopleabout 4 km south-east
- Xianyang · about 1,126,000 peopleabout 14 km west
- Weinan · about 172,000 peopleabout 65 km east
- Tongchuan · about 282,000 peopleabout 90 km north
- Dali · about 110,000 peopleabout 110 km north-east
- Baoji · about 800,000 peopleabout 160 km west
Nearby World Heritage sites
The nearest neighbours, as the crow flies
ChinaCultural37 km away
ChinaCultural291 km away
ChinaCultural332 km away
ChinaNatural341 km away
ChinaCultural387 km away
Further resources
The official record, while our own profile is in hand
The official record
- World Heritage Centre page for this sitewhc.unesco.org
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