China is the world's second most populous country, stretching across East Asia from the Himalayas to the Pacific. Beijing is its capital, Shanghai its largest city, and its landscapes range from the plains of the Yellow River and the Yangtze to deserts, karst mountains and high plateaus. This is one of the largest galleries on the site, built over trips from 1994 to 2026: Beijing and the Great Wall, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Yunnan with Kunming, Dali, Lijiang and Shangri-La, the karst landscapes of Guilin, Yangshuo and Zhangjiajie, the old towns of Fenghuang and Furong, Inner Mongolia and the road to Tibet.
