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

When Chen’s father was a kid in the countryside of Gansu, China, he was involved in an accident where he was almost trampled by a horse-drawn cart.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 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

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

The landslide in Yunnan also came just over a month after China’s most powerful earthquake in years struck the northwest in a remote region between Gansu and Qinghai province.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024