香格里拉

xiāng gé lǐ lā

Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth

Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel

香

xiāng

fragrant

格

gé

square

里

lǐ

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m

拉

lā

to pull