Window of the World, Miniature park in Nanshan, Shenzhen, China
Window of the World is a 48-hectare theme park in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen, opened in 1994 and divided into eight zones: World Square, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Americas, World Sculpture Garden and International Street. Its roughly 130 scale replicas include a one-third copy of the Eiffel Tower rising 108 metres over World Square, plus Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Giza pyramids and Mount Fuji.
Construction of Window of the World began in July 1991, and the section holding the Eiffel Tower replica was finished by 1992. The park opened on June 18, 1994, with its name at the main gate written by Jiang Zemin. It was later named a national 5A-level tourist attraction in 2007, and the Jurassic Water World dinosaur-themed water park opened in June 2024.
The park's name, 世界之窗, was inscribed at the main gate by Jiang Zemin, then General Secretary of the Communist Party and state president. The World Square inside the park hosted the closing ceremony of the 26th Summer Universiade. The grounds are divided into eight zones: World Square, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Americas, the World Sculpture Garden and International Street.
The park sits directly in front of Window of the World station on Shenzhen Metro lines 1 and 2, and the Happy Line monorail also stops nearby. Inside, open cars and a monorail help cover the 480,000-square-metre grounds, which are divided into eight zones from World Square to the International Street.
A one-third scale replica of the Eiffel Tower stands 108 meters tall and serves as the park's main reference point for navigation. This reduced version is large enough to be striking while remaining significantly smaller than the original in Paris.
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