1. Gansu is formed from the first characters of Ganzhou (now Zhangye) and Suzhou (now Jiuquan).
2. Since Xixia once established the Gansu Military Division, the Yuan Dynasty established Gansu Province, referred to as Gan.
3. Because most of the province is to the west of Longshan (Liupan Mountain), and the Longyou Road was set up here in the Tang Dynasty, it is also called Long for short.
4. Gansu, referred to as "Gan" or "Long", is a provincial-level administrative region of the People's Republic of China and the provincial capital, Lanzhou City.
5. Located in the northwest region of China, it connects to Shaanxi in the east, Xinjiang in the west, Sichuan and Qinghai in the south, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in the north, and borders Mongolia at the northwest end.
6. Total area is 4.58 million square kilometers.
7. The terrain of Gansu is long and narrow, with complex and diverse landforms, including mountains, plateaus, plains, river valleys, deserts, and Gobi. It is surrounded by mountains and ridges. The terrain starts from the southwest. Sloping to the northeast.
8. Gansu is located at the intersection of the Loess Plateau, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Inner Mongolia Plateau. The climate types from south to north include subtropical monsoon climate, temperate monsoon climate, and temperate continental. There are four major types of arid climate and plateau mountain climate.