Yanjin, world's narrowest metropolis in China, is a competition for fictional worlds; Read

Yanjin County is often regarded as world's narrowest metropolis. city is built alongside Nanxi River and nestled between China's Yunnan Province's rugged mountains. People find it difficult to believe that Yanjin metropolis exists in reality while looking at county from above. town is shaped like a sandwich, with Nanxi river running through it and large buildings on eir side. But that is precisely what distinguishes town. It appears to be something people would expect to see in a fictional film.

30 meters in narrowest point, 300 meters in  broadest point

settlement is only 30 metres wide at its narrowest point, and over 300 metres wide at its broadest point. On eir side of river, city is spanned by a major roadway that spans many kilometres. Surprisingly, re aren't many bridges in area. re is one more distinguishing feature of town. land is a valuable commodity in city, and many of homes are built entirely on river's banks. homes are built on stilt-like slender pillars to protect m when water level rises due to flooding.

For years, drone foot of world's narrowest city has gone viral on Chinese social media. After watching video, many people wondered why anyone would want to live in such a city, especially given one of world's most powerful nations, China, has far more suitable land. 

For more than a century, city has been colonised, and many citizens would t consider living anywhere else. With just one major route going through and being encircled on all sides by mountains, county is inaccessible to many people, and town is unable to flourish ecomically due to its infrastructure.

More about Yanjin County

Yanjin County is in Yunnan Province, China, and is bordered on rth and east by Sichuan Province. It is a prefecture-level city, is in charge of its administration. Yanjin is named so because city once owned salt wells and built a ferry to get around flood. It was home of Bo people in ancient times. Xia and Shang were part of Liangzhou area but eventually switched. Yanjin belonged to Great Gate Hall of Wumeng Mansion when it was handed to local administration in 1727. Yanjin was name given to county when it was formed in 1917.

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