Lanzhou
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- proper noun
- The journey from Lanzhou to Hezuo takes about four hours and costs around RMB 60.
- the city of Lanzhou
- Lanzhou, China
- Lanzhou University
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Trains leave regularly from Lanzhou to Zhangye.
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Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, at 4:44 AM by Teacher in Lanzhou.
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For the first time, a Fulbrighter was assigned to the University of Lanzhou.
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Once a major caravan stop on the ancient Silk Road to the Middle East and Europe, Lanzhou had become an industrial center with a population of two million.
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Getting there: Langmusi is some 400 kilometers southwest of Lanzhou, provincial capital of Gansu.
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Getting there: Yellow River Stone Forest Geological Park is located in Jingtai Town, about 100 kilometers northeast of Lanzhou, the provincial capital of Gansu.
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Take a long-distance bus from Lanzhou's South Bus Station to Hezuo (??).
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Public buses are available between Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport and Jingtai Town, then to Jingtai and the rock pillar scenic zone.
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Open Funding Project of the State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou, China; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China; and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (no. LH11061).
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Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province, is situated along the Lanzhou River.
Synonyms
A city in northwest China on the Yellow River that is the capital of Gansu province
An old English spelling for Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu on the Yellow River
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lanzhou comes from Chinese parts Lan ('orchid') and zhou ('region' or 'prefecture'). So the name meant the 'orchid region', and that old place-name is now the name of the city on the Yellow River.