Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China.
- LanzhouIts capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
- GansuThe seventh-largest administrative district by area at 453700 km2, Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia (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.
- GansuXinjiang also borders the Tibet Autonomous Region and the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai.
- XinjiangThis highway remained the primary traffic route of northwestern China until the completion of the railway from Lanzhou to Ürümqi, Xinjiang.
- LanzhouTo the east, a conventional and a high-speed rail line runs through Turpan and Hami to Lanzhou in Gansu Province.
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Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)
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War fought in 19th-century western China, mostly during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor (r.
However, this article refers specifically to two waves of uprising by various Chinese Muslims, mostly Hui people, in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces in the first wave, and then in Xinjiang in the second wave, between 1862 and 1877.
Zuo had 7,000 Hui people executed and resettled the rest in southern Gansu, to ensure that the entire Gansu Corridor from Lanzhou to Dunhuang would remain Hui-free, thereby preventing the possibility of future collusion between the Muslims of Gansu and Shaanxi and those of Xinjiang.
Qinghai
1 linksLandlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.
Landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.
Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.
The Lanqing Railway, running between Lanzhou, Gansu and Xining, the province's capital, was completed in 1959 and is the major transportation route in and out of the province.
Islam in China
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Islam has been practiced in China since the 7th century CE.
Though Hui Muslims are the most numerous group, the greatest concentration of Muslims are in Xinjiang, which contains a significant Uyghur population.
Lesser yet significant populations reside in the regions of Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai.
A 2019 paper from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study interviewed Hui Muslims in Xining, Lanzhou, and Yinchuan and found that none saw the recent policies or government as detrimental to their religious lives.
Hexi Corridor
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The Hexi Corridor (, Xiao'erjing: حْسِ ظِوْلاْ, IPA: Help:IPA/Mandarin), also known as the Gansu Corridor, is an important historical region located in the modern western Gansu province of China.
As part of the Northern Silk Road, running northwest from the western section of the Ordos Loop between Yinchuan and Lanzhou, the Hexi Corridor was the most important trade route in Northwest China.
It was during this rebellion that the Tang withdrew its western garrisons stationed in what is now Gansu and Qinghai, which the Tibetans then occupied along with the area that is modern Xinjiang.
Ürümqi
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Ürümqi ( also spelled Ürümchi or without umlauts), formerly known as Dihua (also spelled Tihwa), is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the far northwest of the People's Republic of China.
Han Chinese from all over China moved into Dihua, as did Chinese Hui Muslims from Gansu and Shaanxi.
According to this report, seven of these cities are in China, including Taiyuan, Beijing, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Jinan, and Shijiazhuang (besides Ürümqi).
Gobi Desert
0 linksLarge desert or brushland region in East Asia, and is the sixth largest desert in the world.
Large desert or brushland region in East Asia, and is the sixth largest desert in the world.
Some geographers and ecologists prefer to regard the western area of the Gobi region (as defined above): the basin of the Tarim in Xinjiang and the desert basin of Lop Nor and Hami (Kumul), as forming a separate and independent desert, called the Taklamakan Desert.
Among the most important are those from Kalgan (at the Great Wall) to Ulaanbaatar (960 km); from Jiuquan (in Gansu) to Hami 670 km; from Hami to Beijing (2000 km); from Hohhot to Hami and Barkul; and from Lanzhou (in Gansu) to Hami.