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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gansu mean?

• GANSU (noun)
The noun GANSU has 1 sense:

1. a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia

Familiarity information: GANSU used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GANSU (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Gansu; Gansu province; Kansu

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Gansu"):

Lanchou; Lanchow; Lanzhou (the capital city of the Chinese province of Gansu on the Yellow River)

Holonyms ("Gansu" is a part of...):

Silk Road (an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles); followed by Marco Polo in the 13th century to reach Cathay)

China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

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