Gansu
Gansu
甘肃 | |
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| Province of Gansu | |
| Coordinates: 38°N 102°E / 38°N 102°E | |
| Country | China |
| Named after | |
| Capital (and largest city) | Lanzhou |
| Divisions | 14 prefectures, 86 counties, 1344 townships |
| Government | |
| • Type | Province |
| • Body | Gansu Provincial People's Congress |
| • Party Secretary | Hu Changsheng |
| • Congress chairman | Hu Changsheng |
| • Governor | Ren Zhenhe |
| • CPPCC chairman | Zhuang Guotai |
| • National People's Congress Representation | 52 deputies |
| Area | |
• Total | 453,700 km2 (175,200 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 7th |
| Highest elevation (Altyn-Tagh) | 5,830 m (19,130 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 25,019,831 |
| • Rank | 22nd |
| • Density | 55/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| • Rank | 27th |
| Demographics | |
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| GDP (2024)[2] | |
| • Total | CN¥1,300.29 billion (27th; US$182.58 billion) |
| • Per capita | CN¥52,816 (31st; US$7,416) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-GS |
| HDI (2022) | 0.722[3] (29th) – high |
| Website | www |
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"Gansu" in simplified (top) and traditional (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 甘肃 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 甘肅 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Ganzhou and Suzhou" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tibetan | ཀན་སུའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན། | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Ганьсү муж | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠭᠠᠨᠰᠤ ᠮᠤᠵᠢ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Uyghur | گەنسۇ ئۆلكىسى | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kazakh | گانسۋ ولكەسى Ганьсу өлкесі Gansu ölkesi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gansu[a] is a province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at 453,700 square kilometres (175,200 sq mi), Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia's Govi-Altai Province, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south and Shaanxi to the east. The Yellow River passes through the southern part of the province. Part of Gansu's territory is located in the Gobi Desert. The Qilian mountains are located in the south of the Province.
Gansu has a population of 26 million, ranking 22nd in China. Its population is mostly Han, along with Hui, Dongxiang and Tibetan minorities. The most common language is Mandarin. Gansu is among the poorest administrative divisions in China, ranking last in GDP per capita as of 2019.
The state of Qin originated in what is now southeastern Gansu, and later established the first imperial dynasty in Chinese history. The Northern Silk Road ran through the Hexi Corridor, which passes through Gansu, resulting in it being an important strategic outpost and communications link for the Chinese empire.
The city of Jiayuguan, the second most populated city in Gansu, is known for its section of the Great Wall and the Jiayu Pass fortress complex.
- ^ "Communiqué of the Seventh National Population Census (No. 3)". National Bureau of Statistics of China. 11 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ gansu's total permanent population at the end of 2023 is 24.6548 million, and at the end of 2024 it is 24.5834 million"zh:(甘肃)关于2024年全省主要人口数据的通报" (Press release). gansu.gov. 18 February 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025. so that the mid-year population of gansu in 2024 is 24.6191 million. gansu's GDP in 2024 is CN¥1,300.29 billion, or US$182.58 billion (average annual exchange rate in 2024 is 1 US dollar to RMB 7.1217)"zh:(甘肃)2024年全省经济运行情况" (Press release). gansu.gov. 20 January 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025. Gansu's GDP per capita in 2024 based on the mid-year population is CN¥52,816 (US$7,416).
- ^ "Human Development Indices (8.0)- China". Global Data Lab. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- ^ Powers, John (2017). The Buddha party: how the people's Republic of China works to define and control Tibetan Buddhism. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. Appendix B, page 6. ISBN 9780199358151. OCLC 947145370.
- ^ "Gansu". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021.
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