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Jieyang

China

Watercolour of Jieyang, China. The ancient cradle of Chaoshan culture and "Jade Capital of Asian Jade" along the Rongjiang River, centered around the historic Jinshan Bridge, Jinyang Gate, and Jieyang Confucius Temple, with Southern Song Dynasty Jieyang Confucius Temple and Ming Dynasty Jinyang Gate.
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
Southern Song Dynasty Jieyang Confucius Temple; Ming Dynasty Jinyang Gate; Huangqishan; Rongjiang River; Yangmei Jade Market and Asian Jade Capital; Chaoshan; lush eastern Guangdong subtropical flora; Southern Song Confucian
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the Rongjiang River or from the temple courtyards toward Jinyang Gate with Huangqishan rising in the background, showing banyan branches and stone steps in the foreground, the calm river waters, stone bridges, and classical temple roofs in the middle-ground, and the lush forested peak of Huangqishan with its pagoda fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick canopies of ancient banyans around the Confucius Temple, the forested slopes of Huangqishan, and lotus ponds.
Guarded against
Not Shantou, Chaozhou, or Meizhou
Population1,899,394Wikidata: 6,089,400
Coordinates23.54°N, 116.37°E
Elevation8 m
Area5,265 km²
Time zoneAsia/ShanghaiUTC+8
Solar noon12:15clock runs 0.2 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Jieyang and you surface nearest to Embarcación, Argentina — 60 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

ChaozhouCN28 km
ShantouCN38 km
LongyanCN182 km
XiamenCN203 km
HuizhouCN205 km
Luohu DistrictCN254 km
ShenzhenCN260 km
KowloonHK262 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Jieyang inside this atlas.

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