Lanzhou
Lanzhou, formerly Lanchow, is the capital and largest city of Gansu province in northwestern China. 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.
- Type: City with 3,690,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Gaolan”, “Gaolanas”, “Kao-lan-hsien”, “Kaolan”, “Kuldne Linn”, “Lan tcheou”, “Lan Tchéou”, “Lân-chiu”, “Lan-chou”, “Lan-chou-fu”, “Lan-chou-shih”, “Lan-chow”, “Lan-chow-fu”, “Lan-tcheou”, “Lan-tsjow”, “Lanchow”, “Lanchowfu”, “Lanczou”, “Lantcheou”, “Lanzhou Shi”, “Lenju shehiri”, “Ланчжоу”, “लानझू”, “ལན་ཀྱོ།”, “လန်ကျိုး”, “난주”, “란저우”, “란주”, “ランチョウ”, and “金城”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lanzhou Railway Station and Baitashan Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bali and Donggang Subdistrict.
Donggang Subdistrict
Suburb
Donggang Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Chengguan District, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China.
Lanzhou
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, state capital, and locality
- Location: Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.0526° or 36° 3′ 9″ north
Longitude
103.8395° or 103° 50′ 22″ east
Population
3,690,000
Elevation
1,521 metres (4,990 feet)
IATA airport code
LHW
UN/LOCODE
CN LAZ
Open location code
8P853R3Q+2Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Lanzhou” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Lanzhou”
- Afrikaans: “Lantsjou”
- Afrikaans: “Lanzhou”
- Amharic: “ላንዞው”
- Arabic: “لانتشو”
- Arabic: “لانشو”
- Armenian: “Լանժոու”
- Asturian: “Lanzhou”
- Azerbaijani: “Lançjou”
- Balinese: “Lanzhou”
- Basque: “Lanzhou”
- Belarusian: “Ланьчжоў”
- Bengali: “লানচৌ”
- Bengali: “লানঝাউ”
- Breton: “Lanzhou”
- Bulgarian: “Ланджоу”
- Burmese: “လန်ကျိုးမြို့”
- Catalan: “Lanzhou”
- Cebuano: “Lanzhou (kapital sa prepektura sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Lanzhou”
- Chechen: “Ланьчжоу”
- Chinese: “Lánzhōu”
- Chinese: “兰州”
- Chinese: “兰州市”
- Chinese: “蘭州市”
- Croatian: “Lanzhou”
- Czech: “Lan-čou”
- Danish: “Lanzhou”
- Dutch: “Lanzhou”
- Esperanto: “Lanĝoŭo”
- Esperanto: “Lanzhou”
- Estonian: “Lanzhou”
- Finnish: “Lanzhou”
- French: “Lanzhou”
- Gan Chinese: “兰州市”
- Gan Chinese: “蘭州”
- Georgian: “ლანჭოუ”
- German: “Lanzhou”
- Greek: “Λαντσόου”
- Gujarati: “લૅન્ઝૂ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Làn-chû-sṳ”
- Hausa: “Lanzhou”
- Hebrew: “לאנג’ואו”
- Hindi: “लान्झू”
- Hindi: “लान्झोउ”
- Hungarian: “Lancsou”
- Icelandic: “Lanzhou”
- Indonesian: “Lanzhou”
- Irish: “Lanzhou”
- Italian: “Lanzhou”
- Japanese: “蘭州”
- Japanese: “蘭州市”
- Javanese: “Lanzhou”
- Kannada: “ಲಾನ್ಝೌ”
- Kashmiri: “لانچو”
- Kazakh: “Ланьчжоу”
- Kikuyu: “Lanzhou”
- Kirghiz: “Ланьчжоу шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Ланьчжоу”
- Korean: “란저우 시”
- Korean: “란저우시”
- Kurdish: “Lanzhou”
- Latin: “Lanzhou”
- Latvian: “Laņdžou”
- Literary Chinese: “蘭州市”
- Lithuanian: “Landžou”
- Low German: “Lanzhou”
- Luxembourgish: “Lanzhou”
- Macedonian: “Ланџоу”
- Malagasy: “Lanzhou”
- Malay: “Lanzhou”
- Marathi: “लानचौ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Làng-ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lân-chiu-chhī”
- Mingrelian: “ლანჯოუ”
- Mongolian: “Ланьжоу”
- Nepali: “लान्झाउ”
- Northern Frisian: “Lanzhou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lanzhou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lanzhou”
- Norwegian: “Lanzhou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lanzhou”
- Oromo: “Lanzhou”
- Ossetian: “Ланьчжоу”
- Pampanga: “Lanzhou”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਨਜ਼ੂ”
- Persian: “لانژو”
- Polish: “Lanzhou”
- Portuguese: “Lanzhou”
- Pushto: “لان جو”
- Quechua: “Lanzhou”
- Romanian: “Lanzhou”
- Russian: “Ланьчжоу”
- Scots: “Lanzhou”
- Serbian: “Ланџоу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lanzhou”
- Sinhala: “ලන්සෞ”
- Slovak: “Lan-čou”
- Slovenian: “Landžov”
- Somali: “Lanzhou”
- Spanish: “Lanzhou”
- Swahili: “Lanzhou”
- Swedish: “Lanzhou”
- Tagalog: “Lanzhou”
- Tajik: “Ланьчжоу”
- Tamil: “இலாண்சூ”
- Tamil: “லஙழவு”
- Tatar: “Ланьчжоу”
- Telugu: “లాంజ్హౌ”
- Thai: “หลานโจว”
- Tibetan: “ལན་ཀྲོའུ།”
- Turkish: “Lanzhou”
- Uighur: “لەنجۇ شەھىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Ланьчжоу”
- Urdu: “لانژو”
- Uzbek: “Lanchjou”
- Venetian: “Lanzhou”
- Vietnamese: “Lan Châu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lanzhou”
- Welsh: “Lanzhou”
- Western Panjabi: “لانزہو”
- Western Panjabi: “لانژو”
- Wu Chinese: “兰州”
- Wu Chinese: “兰州市”
- Yakut: “Ланьчжоу”
- Yue Chinese: “蘭州”
- Zhuang: “Lanzcouh”
- “兰州市”
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