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Lying in southern Fujian Province, Zhangzhou City has an area of 12,600 square kilometers and a population of 4.3 million. The best tourist season is from February to October. Zhangzhou has a long history, and it is a well-known historical and cultural city.

Zhangzhou boasts of beautiful landscape, men of letters, many places of historic interest and scenic beauty, colorful folk customs, and rich tourist resources. The landscape is composed of mountains, the sea, rocks, caves, pavilions, tablets, temples, bridges, trees, flowers, and fruit.

At present, special tourist routes are open for people to spend holidays on the beach, admire flowers, taste the local fruit, visit ancient buildings, tour the rammedearth houses, make religious homage, and pay respects to ancestors.

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