Kansu

/ ˈkænˈsuː /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Gansu

Example Sentences

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

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One of the greatest earthquakes of recent times was that which visited the provinces of Kansu and Shensi in North-West China, on 16th Dec., 1920.

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This name might easily have been extended by the Chinese from the Tatars of Kansu to the neighbouring Tanguts, and thus to all Tibetans.

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The social condition of Mohammedan women in Kansu Province in Northwest China is not so hard as those of their sisters in the more western countries.

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In the north-westernmost province of the kingdom, Kansu, is a famous old town, named Si-ning, surrounded with a fine stone wall.

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