Xi'an, Shaanxi

China

Xi'an, Shaanxi connects to 13067 places across 28 topics through 352 Bunkabop connections, with history and government as the dominant threads. Beijing and Japan are among its heavily co-connected places, reflecting the city's long reach across East Asian political and cultural history. A stele erected in 781 CE records a Church of the East monk whose grandfather came from Balkh in Tokharistan, anchoring Xi'an's position on the Silk Road. Its Islamic heritage also includes the Daxuexi Alley Mosque, where a 1523 stele records reforms and construction carried out under Ajall Shams al-Din Omar.