Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Xingyi UNESCO Global Geopark

CN

Marvel at the Wanfenglin karst landscape, where more than 20,000 sharp peaks stretch across the horizon.Discover the “Xingyi fauna” fossil site, offering rare insight into marine life from over 240 million years ago.

CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationCN
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2024
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 145,600 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Xingyi UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Xingyi UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as Marvel at the Wanfenglin karst landscape, where more than 20,000 sharp peaks stretch across the horizon.Discover the “Xingyi fauna” fossil site, offering rare insight into marine life from over 240 million years ago. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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