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GANSU PROVINCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gansu province mean? 

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

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GANSU PROVINCE (noun)


Sense 1

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 province"):

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

Holonyms ("Gansu province" 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)

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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