Gansu
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- Names
Gansu
Kansu
- Place Type
- province
- Description
- Served as corridor for great highway to West by "Silk Road"; part of Wei kingdom for centuries; controlled by Kublai Khan 13th cen.; part of Shaanxi province under Mings; is traversed by Great Wall; produces wheat, cotton & oil.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Getty Vocabulary Program rules; NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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