Are Dongting Lake and Yueyang Tower in the same place?

In the same place; Yueyang Tower is near Dongting Lake.

Dongting Lake area is located in the south bank of Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, which spans Hunan and Hubei provinces. Including the vast plains and lake water network areas south of Jingjiang reach and below the four major water conservancy stations of Hunan, Guizhou, Yuan and Li.

Yueyang Tower is located in Yueyang, near Dongting Lake. The inland area of the scenic spot is about130m long from east to west and 300m long from north to south, with a total projected land area of 39,000m2.

Expand the information of Yueyang Tower, overlooking Dongting and Junshan. Since ancient times, it has been known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building", and it is also known as "the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River" with the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei and the Wangtengting Pavilion in Nanchang, Jiangxi. 1988 1 has been designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council.

Yueyang Tower, as the only ancient building that keeps its original appearance among the three famous buildings, has a unique helmet-top structure that embodies the wisdom of ancient working people and the exquisite design and skills of craftsmen. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan's well-known "Yueyang Tower" made Yueyang Tower famous all over the world.

Dongting Lake, called Yunmeng, Jiujiang and Chonghu in ancient times, is located on the south bank of Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The name of Dongting Lake began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was named after Dongting Mountain (now Junshan Mountain) in the lake. Dongting Lake was called "Eight Hundred Li Dongting Lake" in ancient times.

Dongting Lake is an important storage lake in the Yangtze River basin, with strong flood storage capacity. It has saved the Yangtze River floods many times, and Jianghan Plain and Wuhan three towns have been able to survive the floods safely.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Yueyang tower

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Dongting Lake