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Kunshan

China

Watercolour of Kunshan, China. The birthplace of Kunqu Opera and home to the iconic water town of Zhouzhuang along the Lou River and Lake Dianshan, centered around Mount Yufeng and Shuangqiao (Twin Bridges), with Twin Bridges of Zhouzhuang and Shen Family Mansion.
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
Twin Bridges of Zhouzhuang; Shen Family Mansion; Mount Yufeng; Kunqu Opera; Yangcheng Lake and Dianshan Lake; lush Jiangnan canal country flora; Kunqu Opera
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking along the canal toward the Twin Bridges of Zhouzhuang with weeping willows and stone quayside steps in the foreground, showing willow branches and stone steps in the foreground, the arched and beam stone bridges with a wooden sampan in the middle-ground, and the whitewashed canal town houses fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick weeping willows along the canals, bamboo groves, and the pine-covered slopes of Mount Yufeng.
Guarded against
Not Suzhou proper, Shanghai, or Wuxi
Population2,092,496
Coordinates31.38°N, 120.95°E
Elevation10 m
Area932 km²
Time zoneAsia/ShanghaiUTC+8
Solar noon11:56clock runs 0.1 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Kunshan and you surface nearest to Sauce de Luna, Argentina — 22 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

JiadingCN28 km
QingpuCN30 km
SuzhouCN34 km
ChangshuCN36 km
PutuoCN44 km
SongjiangCN47 km
MinhangCN50 km
BaoshanCN51 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Kunshan inside this atlas.

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