The Yiwu River
The river crosses the basin on a gentle diagonal, spanned by a series of bridges. Its line breaks up an otherwise rigid street grid and gives the composition a clear axis.
Minimalist map poster · China
29.3151° N / 120.0768° E
A dense commercial grid in a green river basin, wrapped by expressways and low hills on almost every side

One city, five moods
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On the wall



The map
Yiwu sits in a basin in central Zhejiang. The Yiwu River runs through it from northeast to southwest, and the surrounding hills are low and scattered rather than steep. On a map the city is a compact mass of blocks packed onto the flat valley floor. Almost every street runs at a right angle to another, so from above it reads like an orderly place.
The city is best known for its wholesale trade. The Yiwu International Trade City is one of the largest small-commodity markets in the world, and its long market halls appear on the map as broad rectangles in the northern districts. Yiwu is also the Chinese end of a long-distance freight rail route to Madrid, which ties this inland city to Europe.
A Yiwu map poster turns all of this into a clean black-and-white print. Residential blocks crowd close to the river, the wide avenues run out towards the logistics zones, and the edges fade into irrigated fields and wooded slopes. Few trading cities are this legible from above. The grid shows how quickly the city was laid out and how much of it was planned around moving goods.
The river crosses the basin on a gentle diagonal, spanned by a series of bridges. Its line breaks up an otherwise rigid street grid and gives the composition a clear axis.
The trade city complexes appear as very large, uniform blocks. Their scale stands out against the finer residential streets around them and marks where the city's economy is concentrated.
The dense urban fabric thins out towards low hills and farmland. The poster gets a soft natural frame instead of a hard cut-off at the edge.
Make it yours
Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
The free preview is low-resolution with a watermark. Prints and HD files are rendered at 300 DPI, up to 7,200 × 10,800 px, without a watermark.
Why Yiwu
Yiwu tends to matter to people who have worked there, sourced products there or lived there for a stretch of years. A map of the city is a quiet reminder of that time, and it hangs as easily in an office as it does at home.
You can personalise the title, subtitle and coordinates line, for example with the year you first arrived or the name of a company. Choose from five styles: Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand.
Order the Yiwu poster| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
Pick a style at the top of the page, then choose Printed Poster — a size and, if you like, a frame — or Digital HD Files. Checkout takes one step, and your order page updates as soon as the payment goes through.
It is printed on premium 200 gsm matte paper in one of six sizes, from 30 × 40 cm to 24 × 36″. Printed posters start at $39, shipping included.
Yes. Choose a solid wood frame in black, white, natural oak or dark wood. It comes with shatterproof glazing and is ready to hang. Framed posters start at $99, shipping included.
Shipping is free to 60+ countries. Each poster is printed by the nearest of our print partners in 30+ countries and usually arrives in 3–7 business days. You can follow the status and tracking under My Orders. A few countries take 2–5 weeks, and where we don't ship yet, the site tells you before you pay.
Send us a photo within 14 days of delivery and we will reprint it for free or refund you.
Yes. In the editor on this page, change the title, the subtitle and the coordinates line to anything you like, and pick a style and size. Printed, framed and digital orders all use exactly your design.
For $9 you get 300 DPI PNG and print-ready PDF files in all six sizes, without a watermark, to print anywhere. Not sure yet? Download a free watermarked preview first.
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