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Jiading

China

Watercolour of Jiading, China. The 800-year-old historic water town and Confucian scholar city along the Lianqi River, centered around the Guyi Garden and the Jiading Confucius Temple, with Guyi Garden and Jiading Confucius Temple.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Guyi Garden; Jiading Confucius Temple; Fahua Pagoda; Zhouqiao; Jiading Poly Grand Theatre and Jiading Library; lush Jiangnan canal country flora; Southern Song
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the lotus pond in Guyi Garden toward a classical Ming pavilion and stone bridge, or looking along the canal in Zhouqiao toward the Fahua Pagoda, showing bamboo fronds and willow branches in the foreground, the tranquil canal water, arched stone bridge, and historic pavilions in the middle-ground, and the slender tiered pagoda rising against the soft sky in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick bamboo groves of Guyi Garden, weeping willows along the Lianqi River, and lotus pads.
Guarded against
Not downtown Shanghai, Songjiang, or Qingpu
Population1,886,100Wikidata: 660,100
Coordinates31.39°N, 121.24°E
Area464 km²
Time zoneAsia/ShanghaiUTC+8
Solar noon11:55clock runs 0.1 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Jiading and you surface nearest to San Salvador, Argentina — 35 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

PutuoCN21 km
BaoshanCN24 km
KunshanCN28 km
ShanghaiCN28 km
XuhuiCN29 km
QingpuCN29 km
PudongCN30 km
YangpuCN30 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Jiading inside this atlas.

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