Gansu definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia [syn: Gansu, Kansu, Gansu province]

Merriam Webster's

or Kansu geographical name province N central China capital Lanzhou area 137,104 square miles (356,470 square kilometers), population 22,371,141

Britannica Concise

Province (pop., 1996 est.: 24,380,000), N central China. For several centuries a passage between the Upper Huang River region and W China, it became part of Chinese territory in the 3rd cent. BC. It was renowned as the entranceway into China used by M. Polo. E Gansu is the main site of earthquakes in China; in 1920 an earthquake there destroyed many towns and caused 200,000 deaths. Gansu's capital in Lanzhou. Wheat is the province's chief crop, and wheat flour rather than rice is the basis of the local diet.