China
NW China
Gansu

Lanzhou

Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of 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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  • Type: City with 3,690,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Gansu, China
  • Also known as: “Kao-lan-hsien”, “Kaolan”, “Lan-chou”, “Lan-chou-fu”, “Lan-chou-shih”, “Lan-chow”, “Lan-chow-fu”, “Lanchow”, “Lanchowfu”, “Lantcheou”, and “Lanzhou Shi”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Baitashan Park and Lanzhou Railway Station.

Park
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
Photo: Chen Zhao, CC BY 2.0.
is a railway station located in Chengguan District, Lanzhou, along Huochezhan East Road. The station was established in October 1952, and is operated by China Railway Lanzhou Group.

Metro station
Photo: Pieceofmetalwork, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a metro station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bali.

Town
is a town of Qilihe District, Lanzhou, . The town is located circa 10 km away from downtown Lanzhou. It has a population of 24,000 and administers 10 administrative villages and 4 communities. The town specializes in peach and pear cultivation.

Lanzhou

Latitude
36.0615° or 36° 3′ 42″ north
Longitude
103.8319° or 103° 49′ 55″ east
Population
3,690,000
Elevation
1,521 metres (4,990 feet)
IATA airport code
LHW
United Nations Location Code
CN LAZ
Open location code
8P853R6J+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4076799624
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1804430
Wiki­data ID
Q183584
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Lanzhou” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Lanzhou”
  • Afrikaans: “Lantsjou”
  • Afrikaans: “Lanzhou”
  • Arabic: “لانتشو”
  • Arabic: “لانشو”
  • Armenian: “Լանժոու”
  • Asturian: “Lanzhou”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lançjou”
  • Balinese: “Lanzhou”
  • Basque: “Lanzhou”
  • Belarusian: “Ланьчжоў”
  • Bengali: “লানচৌ”
  • Breton: “Lanzhou”
  • Bulgarian: “Ланджоу”
  • Bulgarian: “Ланчжоу”
  • Burmese: “လန်ကျိုး”
  • Burmese: “လန်ကျိုးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Lanzhou”
  • Cebuano: “Lanzhou (kapital sa prepektura sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Lanzhou”
  • Chechen: “Ланьчжоу”
  • Chinese: “Lân-chiu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Lánzhōu”
  • Chinese: “兰州”
  • Chinese: “兰州市”
  • Chinese: “蘭州”
  • Chinese: “蘭州市”
  • Chinese: “金城”
  • Croatian: “Lanzhou”
  • Czech: “Lan-čou”
  • Danish: “Lanzhou”
  • Dutch: “Lan-tsjow”
  • Dutch: “Lanzhou”
  • Esperanto: “Lanĝoŭo”
  • Esperanto: “Lanzhou”
  • Estonian: “Kuldne Linn”
  • Estonian: “Lanzhou”
  • Finnish: “Lanzhou”
  • French: “Lan tcheou”
  • French: “Lan Tchéou”
  • French: “Lan-tcheou”
  • French: “Lantcheou”
  • French: “Lanzhou”
  • Gan Chinese: “兰州市”
  • Gan Chinese: “蘭州”
  • Georgian: “ლანჭოუ”
  • German: “Lanzhou”
  • Greek: “Λαντσόου”
  • Gujarati: “લૅન્ઝૂ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Làn-chû-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “לאנג’ואו”
  • Hindi: “लानझू”
  • Hindi: “लान्झू”
  • Hindi: “लान्झोउ”
  • Hungarian: “Lancsou”
  • Icelandic: “Lanzhou”
  • Indonesian: “Lanzhou”
  • Irish: “Lanzhou”
  • Italian: “Lanzhou”
  • Japanese: “ランチョウ”
  • Japanese: “兰州市”
  • Japanese: “蘭州”
  • Japanese: “蘭州市”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾನ್ಝೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Ланьчжоу”
  • Kikuyu: “Lanzhou”
  • Kirghiz: “Ланьчжоу шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Ланьчжоу”
  • Korean: “난주”
  • Korean: “란저우 시”
  • Korean: “란저우”
  • Korean: “란저우시”
  • Korean: “란주”
  • Kurdish: “Lanzhou”
  • Latin: “Lanzhou”
  • Latvian: “Laņdžou”
  • Literary Chinese: “蘭州市”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaolanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Landžou”
  • Lithuanian: “Lanzhou”
  • Low German: “Lanzhou”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lanzhou”
  • Macedonian: “Ланџоу”
  • Malagasy: “Lanzhou”
  • Malay: “Lanzhou”
  • Marathi: “लानचौ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Làng-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lân-chiu-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lân-chiu”
  • Mingrelian: “ლანჯოუ”
  • Mongolian: “Ланьжоу”
  • Nepali: “लान्झाउ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lanzhou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lanchow”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lanzhou”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lanzhou”
  • Norwegian: “Lanzhou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lanzhou”
  • Ossetian: “Ланьчжоу”
  • Pampanga: “Lanzhou”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਨਜ਼ੂ”
  • Persian: “لانژو”
  • Polish: “Lanczou”
  • Polish: “Lanzhou”
  • Portuguese: “Lanzhou”
  • Quechua: “Lanzhou”
  • Romanian: “Lanzhou”
  • Russian: “Ланьчжоу”
  • Scots: “Lanzhou”
  • Serbian: “Ланџоу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lanzhou”
  • Sinhala: “ලන්සෞ”
  • Slovak: “Lan-čou”
  • Slovenian: “Landžov”
  • Spanish: “Lanzhou”
  • Swahili: “Lanzhou”
  • Swedish: “Lanchow”
  • Swedish: “Lanzhou”
  • Tagalog: “Lanzhou”
  • Tamil: “இலாண்சூ”
  • Tamil: “லஙழவு”
  • Telugu: “లాంజ్హౌ”
  • Thai: “หลานโจว”
  • Tibetan: “ལན་ཀྱོ།”
  • Tibetan: “ལན་ཀྲོའུ།”
  • Turkish: “Lanzhou”
  • Uighur: “Lenju shehiri”
  • Uighur: “لەنجۇ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Ланьчжоу”
  • Urdu: “لانژو”
  • Uzbek: “Gaolan”
  • Uzbek: “Lanchjou”
  • Venetian: “Lanzhou”
  • Vietnamese: “Lan Châu”
  • Vietnamese: “Lanzhou”
  • 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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