Ganzhou District
Ganzhou District, formerly the separate city of Ganzhou or Kanchow, is a district in and the seat of the prefecture-level city of Zhangye in Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and northeast. Ganzhou was an important outpost in western China and, along with Suzhou (now the central district of Jiuquan), it is the namesake of the province. As a settlement, it is now known as Zhangye after the prefecture it heads. The name "Gansu" originates as a combination of Ganzhou and Suzhou (肃州).
Ganzhou 甘州区 | |
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 Ganzhou in Zhangye | |
.png) Zhangye in Gansu | |
| Coordinates: 38°56′38″N 100°24′54″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Prefecture-level city | Zhangye |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Ganzhou District | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 甘州區 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 甘州区 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Ganzhou District | ||||||||
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| Zhangye | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 張掖 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 张掖 | ||||||||
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 "Can-tcheou" and other "second-order" towns of Shaan-Gan from Du Halde's 1736 Description of China, based on reports from Jesuit missionaries | |||||||||
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| Chinese | 甘州 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Sweet [Spring(s)] Prefecture | ||||||||
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