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As the second largest city in Shanxi Province, Datong is situated in the far north, near the border with Inner Mongolia, a 6 hour train ride or 5 hour drive from Beijing.
In the year of 398, Datong was set up as the capital city of Northern Wei Dynasty (386 -557). In 493, Northern Wei Dynasty moved its capital city to Luoyang. The 97-year as a Northern Wei capital has left huge cultural heritage of that time to Datong.
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