Gansu

American  

[gahn-sy] / ˈgɑnˈsü /

(Wade-Giles) Kansu

noun

Pinyin.

1. a province in northern central China. 137,104 sq. mi. (355,099 sq. km). Lanzhou.

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Gansu British  

/ ˈɡænˈsuː /

noun

1. a province of NW China, between Tibet and Inner Mongolia: mountainous, with desert regions; forms a corridor, the Old Silk Road, much used in early and medieval times for trade with Turkestan, India, and Persia. Capital: Lanzhou. Pop: 26 030 000 (2003 est). Area: 366 500 sq km (141 500 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Wilder, the former intelligence official, noted that the public exposure of roughly 300 new nuclear-missile silos in western regions like Gansu and Xinjiang likely unsettled Beijing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Fang, a woman from northwestern China's Gansu province, told AFP her 22-year-old brother, a school dropout, vanished in February in Yunnan, which borders Myanmar.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

Their new home, the newly expanded “Panda Ridge” at the San Diego Zoo, has been designed to reflect the sweeping mountains, canyons and cliffs of China’s Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

Most of China's Uygur Muslims live in the north-west of the country, in areas such as Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2024

In neighboring Gansu, authorities had reported 117 dead.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2023