Zhangye
Zhangye
张掖市 | |
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Lavender and afterglow in Zhangye | |
Location of Zhangye City jurisdiction in Gansu | |
| 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) | |
• Total | 1,199,515 |
| GDP | |
| • 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 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.