Guazhou
Guazhou is a county in the western part of Gansu Province. It is on one of the main routes of the historic Silk Road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hiroki Ogawa, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: City with 60,500 residents
- Description: county in Jiuquan, Gansu, China
- Also known as: “An Si”, “An-hsi”, “An-hsi Chou”, “An-hsi County”, “An-hsi Hsien”, “An-hsi Prefecture”, “An-hsi-chou”, “An-hsi-hsien”, “An-si”, “An-si Prefecture”, “Ansi”, “Ansi Prefecture”, “Anxi”, “Anxi County”, “Anxi Prefecture”, “Anxi Xian”, “Anxi Zhou”, “Anxixian”, “Anxizhou”, “Guazhou County”, “Guazhou Xian”, “Guazhouxian”, “Kua-chou”, “Kua-chou County”, “Kua-chou Hsien”, “Kua-chou-hsien”, and “Ngansi”
Guazhou
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Jiuquan, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.5187° or 40° 31′ 7″ northLongitude
95.781° or 95° 46′ 52″ eastPopulation
60,500Elevation
1,357 metres (4,452 feet)Open location code
8MGQGQ9J+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 779207268OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1529644Wikidata ID
Q1201947
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Guazhou” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Guazhou Xian”
- Chinese: “Guāzhōu Xiàn”
- Chinese: “Koa-chiu-koān”
- Chinese: “安西县”
- Chinese: “安西州”
- Chinese: “安西縣”
- Chinese: “瓜州”
- Chinese: “瓜州县”
- Chinese: “瓜州縣”
- Dutch: “Guazhou”
- French: “An si tcheou”
- French: “An si”
- French: “Comte de Guazhou”
- French: “Comté de Guazhou”
- French: “Guazhou”
- French: “Ngansi”
- French: “xian de Guazhou”
- French: “Xian de Guazhou”
- Gan Chinese: “瓜州县”
- German: “Guazhou”
- Italian: “Contea di Guazhou”
- Italian: “Guazhou”
- Japanese: “安西県”
- Japanese: “瓜州県”
- Korean: “과저우현”
- Korean: “안시 현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Koa-chiu-koān”
- Mirandese: “Guazhou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guazhou”
- Norwegian: “Guazhou”
- Persian: “شهرستان گواژو”
- Russian: “Гуачжоу”
- Spanish: “Guazhou”
- Swedish: “Guazhou”
- Swiss German: “Guazhou”
- Tosk Albanian: “Guazhou”
- Ukrainian: “Гуачжоу”
- Urdu: “گواژاؤ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Qua Châu”
- Wu Chinese: “瓜州县”
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