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China plans national park to outsize Yellowstone

NORTHWEST China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has planned to build the world's largest national park by integrating the scattered neighboring tourist resorts into a whole. The Kanas Geological Park, now around 1,000 square kilometers, will be... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Sat, Oct 13 2007

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