Jinyang Lake

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Also known as

晋阳湖

City

Quanzhou

Address

Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province 3

Ticket

Free

Coordinates

24.8365801, 118.5645861

About Jinyang Lake

Jinyang Lake is located in Jinsheng Town, the southern end of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. It is a power plant reservoir dug manually in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The lake covers an area of 5.1 square kilometers and has a water storage capacity of 24 million cubic meters. It is the largest artificial lake in North China and is known as the "North Lake of China". Jinyang Lake is adjacent to the Jinci Complex Line in the east, Taiyuan No. 1 Thermal Power Plant, the largest in Shanxi Province, to the west, and to the south is the historic Kuching Yangcheng and the famous Jinci tourist resort at home and abroad. The name "Jinyang Lake" has a long history. It is said that in ancient times, the Taiyuan area was a large expanse of water called Jinyang Lake.

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