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Caves in China
China has 32 caves on Detourmap — caves, caverns, grottoes and the karst underground. The best known is Mogao Caves. All of them are below.
- Caves
- 32
- Of nature
- 32 of 403
- Little known
- 22 of 32
- Oldest
- Southern Cliff Buddhist Sculptures 700
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12.Reed Flute Cave
Nature · Hidden gem
Cave and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi Province, China
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15.Ah-ai Grotto
Nature · 8th century · Hidden gem
Xinjiang Buddhist grottoes, discovered by local sheepherder in C.E.1999
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20.Tuyoq caves
Nature · Hidden gem
Site of Buddhist monasteries in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
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29.Southern Cliff Buddhist Sculptures
Nature · 7th century · Hidden gem
Buddhist grottoes in Bazhong, Sichuan
Questions about this page
How many caves are there in China?
32 on this map, out of 403 nature & landscapes in China. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.
What is the best known cave in China?
Mogao Caves. Caves in Dunhuang City, Gansu, China.
Which caves in China are the least visited?
22 of the 32 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.
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