Gansu
Gansu is a province in the North West region of China. 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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Gansu
- Type: State with 25,000,000 residents
- Description: province of China
- Also known as: “CN-62”, “Gansu Province”, “Gaņsu province”, “Gansu provints”, “Ganzu”, “Gensu”, “Gensu Ölkisi”, “Hexi Corridor”, “Kam-siok”, “Kâm-sok-sén”, “Kâm-suk-sén”, “Kan Sou”, “Kan-sou”, “Kansoe”, “Kansou”, “Kansu Province”, “Kansuh”, “Kengsu”, “Propinsi Gansu”, “Province of Gansu”, “Province of Kansu”, “Provincia de Gansu”, “província de Gansu”, “Provincia del Gansu”, “Provincia del Ganzu”, “Provincia di Gansu”, “Provincia di Ganzu”, “Provincia Gansu”, “Wilayah Gansu”, “Провінція Ганьсу”, “جانسو”, “غانسو”, “كەڭسۇ”, “گەنسۇ”, “गान्सू”, “गांसू प्रांत”, “गांसू प्रान्त”, “กานซู”, “กานสู้”, “มณฑลกานสู”, “มณฑลกานสู้”, “ཀན་སུ་”, “ཀན་སུའུ་”, “ཀན་སུའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན་”, “ཀན་སུའུ།”, “간수성”, “간쑤”, “간쑤 성”, “감숙”, “감숙 성”, “감숙성”, “カンスー”, “甘”, “甘粛省 (中華人民共和国)”, “陇”, and “隴”
- Neighbors: Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Xinjiang
- Categories: province of China and locality
- Location: Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
38° north
Longitude of center
102° east
Population
25,000,000
Elevation
1,693 metres (5,554 feet)
Abbreviation
“甘”
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OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Gansu” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Gansu”
- Afrikaans: “Gansu”
- Amharic: “ጋንሱ”
- 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”
- Cebuano: “Gansu Sheng”
- Cebuano: “Gānsù”
- Central Bikol: “Gansu (Tsina)”
- Central Bikol: “Gansu”
- Central Kurdish: “گانسو”
- Chechen: “Ганьсу”
- Chinese: “Gansu Sheng”
- Chinese: “甘肃”
- Chinese: “甘肃省”
- Chinese: “甘肅省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Gansu”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kansu”
- Croatian: “Gansu”
- Czech: “Kan-su”
- Danish: “Gansu”
- Dutch: “Gansu”
- Esperanto: “Gansuo”
- Estonian: “Gansu”
- Finnish: “Gansu”
- French: “Gansu”
- French: “Gānsù”
- French: “Province de Gansu”
- Galician: “Gansu”
- Gan Chinese: “甘肃省”
- Gan Chinese: “甘肅”
- Georgian: “განსუ”
- Georgian: “კანსუ”
- German: “Gansu”
- Greek: “Κανσού”
- Gujarati: “ગન્સુ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kâm-sok”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kâm-suk”
- Hausa: “Gansu”
- Hebrew: “גאנסו”
- Hindi: “गांसू”
- Hungarian: “Kanszu”
- Icelandic: “Gansu”
- Ido: “Provinco Gansu”
- Indonesian: “Gansu”
- Interlingua: “Gansu”
- Irish: “Gansu”
- Italian: “Gansu”
- Japanese: “甘粛”
- Japanese: “甘粛省”
- Javanese: “Gansu”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾನ್ಸು”
- Kashmiri: “گانسوٗ”
- Kazakh: “Ганьсу”
- Kirghiz: “Гансу”
- Kirghiz: “Ганьсу”
- Kongo: “Gansu”
- Korean: “간쑤성”
- Kurdish: “Gansu”
- Latin: “Gansu”
- Latvian: “Gaņsu”
- Literary Chinese: “甘肅省”
- Lithuanian: “Gansu”
- Lombard: “Gansu”
- Macedonian: “Гансу”
- Malagasy: “Gansu”
- Malay: “Gansu”
- Manipuri: “ꯒꯟꯁꯨ”
- Manx: “Gansu”
- Marathi: “कान्सू”
- Mazanderani: “گانسو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Găng-sé̤ṳk”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kam-siok-séng”
- Mingrelian: “განსუ”
- Mongolian: “Ганьсү муж”
- Mongolian: “Ганьсү”
- Mongolian: “ᠭᠠᠨᠰᠤ ᠮᠤᠵᠢ”
- Nepali: “गान्सु”
- Northern Frisian: “Gansu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gansu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gansu”
- Norwegian: “Gansu”
- Novial: “Gansu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gansu”
- Oromo: “Gansu”
- Ossetian: “Ганьсу”
- Pampanga: “Gansu”
- Panjabi: “ਗਾਨਸੂ”
- Persian: “گانسو”
- Polish: “Gansu”
- Portuguese: “Gansu”
- Pushto: “ګانسو”
- Quechua: “Gansu pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Gansu”
- Russian: “Ганьсу”
- Scots: “Gansu”
- Serbian: “Autonomno Područje Tibet”
- Serbian: “Гансу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gansu”
- Sindhi: “گينسو صوبو”
- Sinhala: “ගන්සූ”
- Slovak: “Kan-su”
- Slovenian: “Gansu”
- Somali: “Gansu”
- Spanish: “Gansu”
- Swahili: “Gansu”
- Swedish: “Gansu”
- Tagalog: “Gansu”
- Tajik: “Гансу”
- Tajik: “Ганьсу”
- Tamil: “கான்சு”
- Tatar: “Ганьсу”
- Tatar: “Гәнсу”
- Telugu: “గాన్సు”
- Thai: “มณฑลกานซู่”
- Tibetan: “ཀན་སུའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Turkish: “Kansu”
- Uighur: “گەنسۇ ئۆلكىسى”
- Uighur: “گەنسۇ ئۆلكىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Ганьсу”
- Ukrainian: “Ґаньсу”
- Urdu: “گانسو”
- Uzbek: “Gansu”
- Venetian: “Gansu”
- Vietnamese: “Cam Túc”
- 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”
- Zhuang: “Ganhsu”
- “Gānsù”
- “ma Kansu”
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