Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a fast-paced city of ambition and enterprise: engineers on the cutting edge of modern technology, hardscrabble farmers coming to the big city in search of a better life, middle managers who dream of someday opening their own factories, designers looking to sell to a global market, and all manner of entrepreneurs from across China. Wikivoyage
Population 17,494,398 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in China
Getting there
Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.
Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide-
Kingkey 100 Attraction · 510 m -
Shun Hing Square Attraction · 770 m - Meridian View Center Viewpoint · 790 m
- Portrait of Deng Xiaoping Attraction · 650 m
- Shenzhen Museum Ancient Art Museum Museum · 690 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Through the year
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Shenzhen); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
Markets
Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Somewhere to run
Getting around
- Hongling 130 m
- Grand Theater 730 m
- Hongling South 990 m
- Tongxinling 940 m
- Yuanling 980 m
- Laojie 1.2 km
Train stations: Sungang 1.9 km, Shenzhen 2.1 km, Futian 5.1 km
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.