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Gansu Gansu The Silk Route crosses the Yellow River before following the Gansu Corridor between the Qilian Mountains and the Gobi Desert. © P. Wang-Hoa Qui

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  • Gansu

An ethnic mosaic where Tibetans, Mongols and Uyghurs live together, the province of Gansu offers an astonishing diversity of landscapes where desert alternates with fields of corn. Its capital, Lanzhou, is one of the main stops on the Silk Road, which crosses the Yellow River, then takes the Gansu corridor, which is 870 miles long, between the Qilian mountains and the Gobi desert.

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  2.   Arts and culture

  3.   Monuments