Traditional Chinese 甘州區 Literal meaning Ganzhou District Wade–Giles Kan-chou Ch‘ü Area 4,240 km² | Simplified Chinese 甘州区 Hanyu Pinyin Traditional Chinese 張掖 Province Gansu | |
Points of interest Dafo Temple - Zhangye, Muta, Zhangye Forest Park | ||
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. Ganzhou was formerly 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.
Map of Ganzhou, Zhangye, Gansu, China
References
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