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Gansu

Gansu is a province in the North West region of . Historically, it is the combination of the two regions, gan and su. On the Silk Road Gansu marked the end or beginning of China proper depending upon if you were traveling east towards Xi'an or west towards Central Asia and Europe.
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is the capital and largest city of Gansu province in . Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country.

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is a city on the old Silk Road. It is in Gansu Province in northwest . It is best known for a large group of Buddhist cave temples nearby, with much historic artwork.

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is a city in Gansu Province with striking and beautiful mountain scenery nearby. As for most Chinese cities, the name "Zhangye" is somewhat ambiguous since it can refer either to the city itself or to the prefecture with that city at its center.

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Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China, bordering to the north, to the northeast, Longnan to the east and to the south.

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, formerly known as Suzhou is a prefecture-level city in the northwesternmost part of Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China. It is more than 600 km wide from east to west, occupying 191,342 km2, although its built-up area is mostly located in its Suzhou District.

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is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Gansu province, with a population of 312,663 as of the 2020 census. Compared with the 231,853 people in the sixth national census in 2010, there was an increase of 80,810 people, with an average annual increase of 3.04%.

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is a prefecture-level city in northwest central Gansu province. In the north it borders , in the southwest, . Its central location between three western capitals, , , and makes it an important business and transportation hub for the area.

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is a city in Gansu Province. , a gem on China’s Loess Plateau, is where ancient legends and natural beauty intertwine. From the mythical birthplace of Fuxi to the breathtaking Maijishan Grottoes, this city offers a perfect blend of history, culture, and stunning landscapes.

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is a prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu province, China, bordering province to the south and east and the to the north.

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City, once known as Hezhou, is a county-level city in the province of Gansu, and the capital of the multi-ethnic .

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The is an autonomous county within the prefecture-level city of in the northwest of Gansu Province, China, bordering to the west, to the southeast and Mongolia's to the north.

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, sometimes transliterated Minyue, is a county in prefecture, in Gansu province, .

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is a county in the western part of Gansu Province. It is on one of the main routes of the historic Silk Road.

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Kongtong Mountains is one of the sacred mountains of Taoism. It is located in Pingliang City, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China. It is the mythical meeting site between the Yellow Emperor and Guangchengzi.
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Gansu

Latitude of center
38° north
Longitude of center
102° east
Population
25,000,000
Elevation
1,693 metres (5,554 feet)
Abbreviation
“甘”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244079544
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1810676
Wiki­data ID
Q42392
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Gansu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gansu”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Gansu”
  • Afrikaans: “Gansu”
  • Arabic: “جانسو”
  • Arabic: “غانسو”
  • Arabic: “قانسو”
  • Armenian: “Գանսու”
  • Asturian: “Gansu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qansu”
  • Balinese: “Gansu”
  • Basque: “Gansu”
  • Belarusian: “Ганьсу”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Ганьсу”
  • Bengali: “কানসু”
  • Bengali: “গানসু”
  • Betawi: “Kamsiok”
  • Bosnian: “Gansu”
  • Breton: “Gansu”
  • Bulgarian: “Гансу”
  • Burmese: “ကန်းစုပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Gansu”
  • Catalan: “Kansu”
  • Cebuano: “Gansu Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “گانسو”
  • Chechen: “Ганьсу”
  • Chinese: “Gansu Sheng”
  • Chinese: “Kam-siok-séng”
  • Chinese: “甘”
  • Chinese: “甘肃”
  • Chinese: “甘肃省”
  • Chinese: “甘肅”
  • Chinese: “甘肅省”
  • Chinese: “陇”
  • Chinese: “隴”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gansu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kansu”
  • Croatian: “Gansu”
  • Czech: “Gansu”
  • Czech: “Kan-su”
  • Danish: “Gansu”
  • Dutch: “Gansu”
  • Dutch: “Kansoe”
  • Dutch: “Kansu”
  • Esperanto: “Gansu”
  • Esperanto: “Gansuo”
  • Estonian: “Gansu provints”
  • Estonian: “Gansu”
  • Finnish: “Gansu”
  • Finnish: “Kansu”
  • French: “Gansu”
  • French: “Gānsù”
  • French: “Hexi Corridor”
  • French: “Kan Sou”
  • French: “Kan-sou”
  • French: “Kansou”
  • French: “Kansu”
  • French: “Province de Gansu”
  • Galician: “Gansu”
  • Gan Chinese: “甘肃省”
  • Gan Chinese: “甘肅”
  • Georgian: “განსუ”
  • German: “CN-62”
  • German: “Gansu”
  • German: “Kansou”
  • German: “Kansu”
  • Greek: “Κανσού”
  • Gujarati: “ગન્સુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâm-sok-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâm-sok”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâm-suk-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâm-suk”
  • Hebrew: “גאנסו”
  • Hindi: “गान्सू”
  • Hindi: “गांसू प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “गांसू प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “गांसू”
  • Hungarian: “Gansu”
  • Hungarian: “Kanszu”
  • Icelandic: “Gansu”
  • Ido: “Provinco Gansu”
  • Indonesian: “Gansu”
  • Interlingua: “Gansu”
  • Irish: “Gansu”
  • Italian: “Gansu”
  • Italian: “Gānsù”
  • Italian: “Provincia del Gansu”
  • Italian: “Provincia del Ganzu”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Gansu”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Ganzu”
  • Japanese: “カンスー”
  • Japanese: “甘粛”
  • Japanese: “甘粛省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “甘粛省”
  • Japanese: “甘肃省”
  • Japanese: “甘肅省”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾನ್ಸು”
  • Kazakh: “Ганьсу”
  • Kongo: “Gansu”
  • Korean: “간수성”
  • Korean: “간쑤 성”
  • Korean: “간쑤”
  • Korean: “간쑤성”
  • Korean: “감숙 성”
  • Korean: “감숙”
  • Korean: “감숙성”
  • Kurdish: “Gansu”
  • Latin: “Gansu”
  • Latvian: “Gaņsu province”
  • Latvian: “Gansu”
  • Latvian: “Gaņsu”
  • Literary Chinese: “甘”
  • Literary Chinese: “甘肃”
  • Literary Chinese: “甘肃省”
  • Literary Chinese: “甘肅”
  • Literary Chinese: “甘肅省”
  • Literary Chinese: “陇”
  • Literary Chinese: “隴”
  • Lithuanian: “Gansu”
  • Lombard: “Gansu”
  • Macedonian: “Гансу”
  • Malagasy: “Gansu”
  • Malay: “Gansu”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Gansu”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯟꯁꯨ”
  • Manx: “Gansu”
  • Marathi: “कान्सू”
  • Marathi: “गान्सू”
  • Mazanderani: “گانسو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Găng-sé̤ṳk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kam-siok-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kam-siok”
  • Mingrelian: “განსუ”
  • Mongolian: “Ганьсү муж”
  • Mongolian: “Ганьсү”
  • Mongolian: “ᠭᠠᠨᠰᠤ ᠮᠤᠵᠢ”
  • Nepali: “गान्सु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gansu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gansu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kansu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gansu”
  • Norwegian: “Gansu”
  • Novial: “Gansu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gansu”
  • Ossetian: “Ганьсу”
  • Pampanga: “Gansu”
  • Persian: “گانسو”
  • Polish: “Gansu”
  • Polish: “Kansu”
  • Portuguese: “Gansu”
  • Portuguese: “província de Gansu”
  • Quechua: “Gansu pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Gansu”
  • Russian: “Gansu”
  • Russian: “Гансу”
  • Russian: “Ганьсу”
  • Scots: “Gansu”
  • Serbian: “Autonomno Područje Tibet”
  • Serbian: “Гансу”
  • Serbian: “甘肃”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gansu”
  • Sindhi: “گينسو صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “ගන්සූ”
  • Slovak: “Kan-su”
  • Slovenian: “Gansu”
  • Spanish: “Gansu”
  • Spanish: “Ganzu”
  • Spanish: “Kansu”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Gansu”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Gansu”
  • Swahili: “Gansu”
  • Swedish: “Gansu”
  • Swedish: “Kan-su”
  • Swedish: “Kansu”
  • Tagalog: “Gansu”
  • Tajik: “Гансу”
  • Tamil: “கான்சு”
  • Tatar: “Гәнсу”
  • Telugu: “గాన్సు”
  • Thai: “กานซู”
  • Thai: “กานสู้”
  • Thai: “มณฑลกานซู่”
  • Thai: “มณฑลกานสู”
  • Thai: “มณฑลกานสู้”
  • Tibetan: “ཀན་སུ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཀན་སུའུ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཀན་སུའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཀན་སུའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཀན་སུའུ།”
  • Turkish: “Gansu”
  • Turkish: “Kansu”
  • Uighur: “Gensu Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “Gensu”
  • Uighur: “Kengsu”
  • Uighur: “كەڭسۇ”
  • Uighur: “گەنسۇ ئۆلكىسى”
  • Uighur: “گەنسۇ ئۆلكىسى‎”
  • Uighur: “گەنسۇ”
  • Ukrainian: “Ганьсу”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґаньсу”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Ганьсу”
  • Urdu: “گانسو”
  • Uzbek: “Gansu”
  • Venetian: “Gansu”
  • Vietnamese: “Cam Túc”
  • Vietnamese: “Gansu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gansu”
  • Welsh: “Gansu”
  • Western Armenian: “Կանսու”
  • Western Frisian: “Gansu”
  • Western Panjabi: “گانسو”
  • Wu Chinese: “甘肃省”
  • Yakut: “Ганьсу”
  • Yue Chinese: “甘肅”
  • Yue Chinese: “甘肅省”
  • Zhuang: “Ganhsu”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gansu”. Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.