Zhangye

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Zhangye

Total population

1,218,700

Coordinates38.94°, 100.46°

Demographic figures from National Bureau of Statistics of China. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Zhangye, formerly romanized as Changyeh and also formerly known as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Inner Mongolia on the north and Qinghai on the south. Its central district is Ganzhou, formerly a city of the Western Xia and one of the most important outposts of western China.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Notable people from here

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Gansu

• Shangqin
  3.7 mi away
• Sanzha
  5.3 mi away
• Dangzhai
  5.7 mi away
• Xiaoman
  8.2 mi away
• Mingyong
  9.6 mi away
• Ganjun
  15.2 mi away
• Nijiaying
  18.9 mi away
• Dongle
  21.2 mi away
• Huazhai
  22.2 mi away
• Sanbu
  31.5 mi away
• Minlian
  37.5 mi away
• Xiangdao
  44.9 mi away

Browse all places in Gansu →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Zhangye

Search results from Open Library.