I was going to wait longer until revealing the answer to the most recent edition of "Which city is this?", but I will provide it now since I already have the most excellent answer:
The answer is excellent because Arnauld chose the option I provided which could have tripped me up before too and he chose it for the same reason.
Nanchang's iconic Pavilion of Prince Teng stands next to the Ganjiang River. I last visited Nanchang in 2011, though I am not sure whether I visited the pavilion then. I definitely visited it in 2008. The nearby bridge in the photo I shared might have given me pause, but China can build a lot of bridges in 11 years. Off the top of my head, the pavilion in the photo would have looked quite similar. And the river!
But instead, I took the photo in central Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Yesterday when I first saw Nanning's Changyou Pavilion (η ζΈΈι), which stands next to the Yong River (ιζ±), it puzzled me because I had no memory of it. This later made sense when I discovered the pavilion wasn't opened until 2016 (link in Chinese). The last time I was in Nanning was 2011.
So a genuine congrats to Arnauld on his most excellent wrong answer.
And now you can see why I went with a set of cities to choose from that all began with "nan". I first thought of Nanchang as what I might guess instead of Nanning and then decided to stick the "nan" theme. And yes, I made up Nannannan'nan.
To continue the theme of tough photos, here is a one of one of the first scenes of Nanning I saw during my most recent return to the city:
I definitely wouldn't have been able to identify the city from this photo.
Nanchang, with the pavillon of Prince Teng. I'm quite sure :-)— arnauld π«π· (@arnauld) July 24, 2019
The answer is excellent because Arnauld chose the option I provided which could have tripped me up before too and he chose it for the same reason.
Nanchang's iconic Pavilion of Prince Teng stands next to the Ganjiang River. I last visited Nanchang in 2011, though I am not sure whether I visited the pavilion then. I definitely visited it in 2008. The nearby bridge in the photo I shared might have given me pause, but China can build a lot of bridges in 11 years. Off the top of my head, the pavilion in the photo would have looked quite similar. And the river!
But instead, I took the photo in central Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Yesterday when I first saw Nanning's Changyou Pavilion (η ζΈΈι), which stands next to the Yong River (ιζ±), it puzzled me because I had no memory of it. This later made sense when I discovered the pavilion wasn't opened until 2016 (link in Chinese). The last time I was in Nanning was 2011.
So a genuine congrats to Arnauld on his most excellent wrong answer.
And now you can see why I went with a set of cities to choose from that all began with "nan". I first thought of Nanchang as what I might guess instead of Nanning and then decided to stick the "nan" theme. And yes, I made up Nannannan'nan.
To continue the theme of tough photos, here is a one of one of the first scenes of Nanning I saw during my most recent return to the city:
I definitely wouldn't have been able to identify the city from this photo.
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