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.Tap on the map to travel |
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Lanzhou
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Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of the Chinese province of Gansu, located in the northwest of the country.
Dunhuang
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Dunhuang is a city on the old Silk Road. It is in Gansu Province in northwest China.
Zhangye
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Zhangye is a city in Gansu Province with striking and beautiful mountain scenery nearby.
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Gannan
34°59′N 102°55′E / 34.98°N 102.91°E Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China, bordering Linxia to the north, Dingxi to the northeast, Longnan to the east and Aba to the south.Jiuquan
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Jiuquan, formerly known as Suzhou, is a prefecture-level city in the northwesternmost part of Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China.
Jiayuguan
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Jiayuguan is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Gansu province, with a population of 312,663 as of the 2020 census.
Wuwei
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Wuwei is a prefecture-level city in northwest central Gansu province.
Tianshui
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Tianshui is the second-largest city in Gansu Province, China.
Pingliang
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Pingliang is a prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the south and east and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to the north.
Linxia
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Linxia City, once known as Hezhou, is a county-level city in the province of Gansu, China and the capital of the multi-ethnic Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture.
Subei Mongol Autonomous County
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The Subei Mongol Autonomous County is an autonomous county within the prefecture-level city…
Minle
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Minle, sometimes transliterated Minyue, is a county in Zhangye prefecture, in Gansu province, China.
Kongtongshan National Park
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Kongtong Mountains is one of the sacred mountains of Taoism.
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Gansu
- Type: State with 26,300,000 residents
- Description: province of China
- 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 centre
38° northLongitude of centre
102° eastPopulation
26,300,000Elevation
1,693 metres (5,554 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 244079544OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
1810676Wikidata ID
Q42392Gansu Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Gansu
- Achinese: Propinsi Gansu
- Afrikaans: Gansu
- Arabic: Gansu
- Arabic: جانسو
- Arabic: غانسو
- Arabic: قانسو
- Armenian: Գանսու
- Asturian: Gansu
- Azerbaijani: Qansu
- Basque: Gansu
- Belarusian: Ганьсу
- Belarusian: Правінцыя Ганьсу
- Bengali: কানসু
- Bengali: গানসু
- 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
- English: Gansu Province
- English: Kan-su
- English: Kansu
- Esperanto: Gansu
- Esperanto: Gansuo
- Estonian: Gansu
- Estonian: Gansu provints
- 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
- 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
- Hausa: Kâm-sok
- Hebrew: גאנסו
- Hindi: गांसू
- Hindi: गांसू प्रांत
- Hindi: गांसू प्रान्त
- Hindi: गान्सू
- 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
- Korean: 간쑤 성
- Korean: 간쑤성
- Korean: 감숙
- Korean: 감숙성
- Korean: 감숙 성
- Kurdish: Gansu
- Latin: Gansu
- Latvian: Gansu
- Latvian: Gaņsu
- Latvian: Gaņsu province
- 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
- Mongolian: Ганьсү муж
- Mongolian: ꯒꯟꯁꯨ
- Nepali: गान्सु
- Northern Frisian: Gansu
- Norwegian: Gansu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gansu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kansu
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gansu
- Novial: Gansu
- Occitan (post 1500): Gansu
- Ossetian: Ганьсу
- Pampanga: Gansu
- Persian: گانسو
- Polish: Gansu
- Polish: Kansu
- Portuguese: Gansu
- Portuguese: Kansu
- Quechua: Gansu pruwinsya
- Romanian: Gansu
- Russian: Gansu
- Russian: Гансу
- Russian: Ганьсу
- Scots: Gansu
- 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 Gansu
- Spanish: Provincia de Gansu
- Swahili: Gansu
- Swedish: Gansu
- Swedish: Kan-su
- Swedish: Kansu
- Tagalog: Gansu
- Tajik: Гансу
- Tamil: கான்சு
- Tatar: Гәнсу
- Telugu: గాన్సు
- Thai: Gansu
- Thai: Kansu
- 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
- Uighur: Gensu Ölkisi
- Uighur: Kengsu
- Uighur: كەڭسۇ
- Uighur: گەنسۇ
- Uighur: گەنسۇ ئۆلكىسى
- Ukrainian: Ганьсу
- Ukrainian: Провінція Ганьсу
- Ukrainian: Ґаньсу
- 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
- Kan-su Sheng
- Kansu Province
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Gansu. Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.