Zhangye
张掖市 | |
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 Lavender and afterglow in Zhangye | |
.png) Location of Zhangye City jurisdiction in Gansu | |
  Zhangye Location of the city center in Gansu  Zhangye Zhangye (China) | |
| Coordinates (Zhangye municipal government): 38°55′29″N 100°27′00″E / 38.9248°N 100.4499°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Municipal seat | Ganzhou District |
| Area | |
| • Total | 42,000 km2 (16,000 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,199,515 |
| GDP[2] | |
| • Total | CN¥ 37.4 billion US$ 6.0 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 30,704 US$ 4,930 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 734000 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-GS-07 |
| Website | www |
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 The Dafo Temple, site of the largest reclining Buddha in China. | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 張掖 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 张掖 | ||||||||
| Postal | Changyeh | ||||||||
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| Ganzhou | |||||||||
| Chinese | 甘州 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Sweet [Spring(s)] Prefecture | ||||||||
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Zhangye (simplified Chinese: 张掖; traditional Chinese: 張掖; pinyin: Zhāngyè), formerly romanized as Changyeh or 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.
- ^ Main data bulletin of the sixth national census in 2010 Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, 2011-05-09(in Chinese)
- ^ 甘肃省统计局、国家统计局甘肃调查总队 (November 2016). 《甘肃发展年鉴－2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7894-0.