Gansu

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  1. 1
    A province in northwestern China. Capital: Lanzhou.

    "This is Lanzhou, the old Silk Road outpost that has matured into a metropolis of almost 4 million as the capital of Gansu province in China’s still-poor northwest. And as your lungs can attest, it is one of the most polluted cities in the country."

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chinese provincegansu-specificgansu-specific descriptorgeographichexi corridor regionprc province

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"This is Lanzhou, the old Silk Road outpost that has matured into a metropolis of almost 4 million as the capital of Gansu province in China’s still-poor northwest. And as your lungs can attest, it is one of the most polluted cities in the country."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甘肅 /甘肃 (Gānsù).

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