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Wuyishan is a national park in China, which is a mountain range stretching over more than 1000 km2. The territory of the park itself is approximately 70 km2. The average height of the mountains is 650 meters, and the maximum is 2158 meters at Mount Wuyishan. For its biological and cultural value, th...

Wutai is China's national park in Shanxi province. The name translates as "Mountain of Five Heights", which received this name thanks to 5 round-trip peaks: Western, North, South, East and Central. The maximum height of the mountain is 3058 meters, and the area of the park itself is 367 km2. Mount ...

The Snow Mountain of the Jade Dragon ( Yulunsueshan ) is a national park in Yunnan province in southwestern China. The highest height in the massif is 5596 meters. The mountains are covered with dense snow blanket, which can break at any moment. In the Jade Dragon pond in the city of Lijiang you can...

Mount Emey is China's National Park in Sichuan. Emey, like Putoshan, Utayshan and Jiuhuashan, are sacred mountains of Buddhist religion. Because of this, there were over 100 temples and monasteries in this region before the "Cultural Revolution of China. Right now, about 20 are left, some of which a...

Huangshan is a national park in the Chinese massif, in Anhui province, three hundred kilometers from Shanghai. Granite rocks in the mountains inspired Chinese poets and landscape painters, one of Lee Bo's poets in 747 named this place "Yellow Mountains" ( Huanshan ). Over 70 mountains have a height ...

Sanqingshan is a national park of China in Jiangxi province, spread over an area of 229.5 km2. In 2008, this area was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Sanqing literally translates as the Three Righteous Ones, and statues of him were erected in the Taoist temple: Laozi, the Yellow Emperor,...

Écrins is a French national park occupying the Western Alps, containing the Pelva mountain range, which houses a reserve with the same name. The park was founded in 1963 on an area of 918 km2. The borders of the park pass along the rivers Romance, Dyurans, Gizan and Drak. The height of the mountains...

Nizhnyaya Kama is a national park of Russia located in the Republic of Tatarstan. The park was founded in 1991 on a territory of 265 km2. The border of the park runs near Elabuga and the Embankment of Chelny and Nizhnekamsk. The terrain is wavy, divided by rivers and streams, as well as divided into...

Orlovskoye Polesye is a national park of Russia, founded in 1994. The park covers 777 km2. The attractiveness and peculiarity of the territory of the national park gives both the beauty of the natural landscape and the presence of unique objects, as well as its connection with the culture and histor...

Tunkinsky is a national park in Buryatia. The park was founded in 1991 and covers an area of 11,837 km2. It was created in order to protect the natural complexes of the Lake Baikal basin, the Hamar-Daban ridges and the East Sayan, as well as the Tunkin Valley. Other rather important areas of activi...