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  2. Shicheng, Zhejiang - Wikipedia

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    Shicheng ( Chinese: 狮城; pinyin: Shī Chéng; lit. 'Lion City') is an ancient underwater city situated under Qiandao Lake in Chun'an County, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, and was previously the county seat of the defunct Sui'an County ( Chinese: 遂安县 ). The city was flooded for the purpose of industrialization by the Chinese ...

  3. Forbidden City - Wikipedia

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    The Forbidden City (Chinese: 紫禁城; pinyin: Zǐjìnchéng) is a palace complex in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China, at the center of the Imperial City of Beijing.It is surrounded by numerous opulent imperial gardens and temples including the 22 ha (54-acre) Zhongshan Park, the sacrificial Imperial Ancestral Temple, the 69 ha (171-acre) Beihai Park, and the 23 ha (57-acre) Jingshan Park.

  4. Jinsha site - Wikipedia

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    Jinsha Site (金沙) / 30.681183; 104.012602. Jinsha ( Chinese: 金沙; pinyin: Jīnshā) is a Chinese archaeological site located in the Qingyang District of Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan Province. Along with Sanxingdui, the site is the first major discovery in China during the 21st century. [1]

  5. History of the Forbidden City - Wikipedia

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    View of the Forbidden City from Jingshan Park. The Forbidden City was first built in the early-15th century as the palace of the Ming emperors of China. It is located in the centre of Beijing, China, and was the Chinese imperial palace from the early-Ming dynasty in 1420 to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, continuing to be home of the last emperor, Puyi, until 1924, since then it has been ...

  6. Lost city - Wikipedia

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    A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world. The locations of many lost cities have been forgotten, but some have been rediscovered and studied extensively by scientists.

  7. Kowloon Walled City - Wikipedia

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    Kowloon Walled City was an extremely densely populated and largely ungoverned enclave of China within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Built as an Imperial Chinese military fort, the walled city became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898. Its population increased dramatically ...

  8. Under-occupied developments in China - Wikipedia

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    Under-occupied developments in China are mostly unoccupied property developments in China, and frequently referred to as "ghost cities" or ghost towns. The phenomenon was observed and recorded as early as 2006 by writer Wade Shepard, and subsequently reported by news media over the decades. [1] [2] Although a feature of discourse on the Chinese ...

  9. Sanxingdui - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological site. The site of Sanxingdui is divided into the sacrificial area, palace, workshops, and the residential area. The Sanxingdui archaeological site is located about 4 km northeast of Nanxing Township, Guanghan, Deyang, Sichuan Province. Archaeological digs at the site showed evidence of a walled city founded c. 1,600 BCE.