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Kansu

British  
/ ˈkænˈsuː /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Gansu

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Boarding school pupil Kansu Mansaray wishes Ebola would "vanish from Sierra Leone" as he wants to return to his studies.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2015

From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman�Ma Chung-ying.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Japanese sources reported that China's four northwestern-most provinces�Sinkiang, Kansu, Ning-shia, Shensi�from which the famed Communist Eighth Route Army has kept the Japanese, are being systematically Soviet-ized.

From Time Magazine Archive

The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Chinese imprisoned the infant with his parents in the monastery of Kumbum in Kansu and gave all their support to Yeśes.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir