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 | Population | 25,340,000 |
| Area | 454,000 | |
| Capital | Lanzhou | |
| Main Industries | agriculture (grain), coal, mining | |
| GDP | 3,137 | |
| Trade | 51,563 | |
| Ethnic minorities | 9.3% | |
| Urbanization | 20.5% | |
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Gansu Province is the north-western corridor into China, boundered by inhospitable, mountainous Qinghai to the south-west and the Gobi desert to the north-east, it forms the natural route for the overland silk routes into the heartland of China. Jiayuguan is at the western end of the Great Wall and the Wall forms much of the north-eastern border onto the Gobi desert.
It has a cool and dry climate.
The Duanhuang caves are a major tourist attraction consisting of hundreds of caves cut into the soft sandstone by Buddhist monks fifteen hundred years ago.
