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Shanxi is a province in North China. Twelve PreeChina city guides cover Shanxi.
One Grade I national museum stands in the province. Three UNESCO World Heritage properties have a listed component there.
Counts on this page come from PreeChina's own data as of October 2026. Tickets, opening hours and reservations are not listed, so contact each venue or check its official website for accurate information.
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City Guides
Each city name opens its PreeChina guide.
Landmark Guides
In-depth guides to five landmarks in Shanxi.
Top Attractions
A pick from the Top Attractions of the city guides in Shanxi. Each card opens the Top Attractions of its city.
Taiyuan
Jinci has been a site for three thousand years, built up around the spring that rises here.
Datong
Yungang is one of the three great Buddhist cave complexes in China and a UNESCO site.
Jincheng
Xiyagou, tin cliff gully, is a canyon south of the city, and the road into it is the reason to go.
Changzhi
The Taihang canyon country east of the city is sheer cliff, hanging village, waterfall and the old stone-paved trading paths that linked the highland to the lowland…
Jinzhong
The Qiao Family Compound at Qixian is six large courtyards over 8,700 square metres, built across three generations between 1756 and 1906, and laid out like a fortress…
Taiyuan
The Shanxi Museum holds over 400,000 objects from the Palaeolithic to the Qing, and its strengths are Western Zhou bronzes from the state of Jin, Northern Wei and Tang…
Datong
The Ming city wall was rebuilt between 2008 and 2016, and it is worth knowing that the reconstruction is argued about in China: what was raised is new masonry on old…
Jincheng
Named after Wang Mang, the Han Dynasty usurper who fled here according to legend.
Changzhi
Changzhi was Shangdang and later Luzhou; the name Bingzhou belongs to Taiyuan, not here.
Jinzhong
The Wang Family Compound at Lingshi is the bigger one: 35 courtyards and 1,083 rooms stepping up a hillside, built by the Wang family over three centuries.
Changzhi
Lingkong Mountain, in Qinyuan County north of the city, rises to about 1,600 metres above the plateau with temple buildings set among pines, some of the trees over a…
Museums
These museums are on the China Museums Association Grade I lists and appear on the museums theme page.
one museum in Shanxi
World Heritage
A property is counted when UNESCO lists at least one component point inside Shanxi. Long lines such as the Great Wall and coastal sites list some of their points, so the list can be shorter than the true extent.
three properties
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