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GANSU
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia
Synonyms:
Gansu; Gansu province; Kansu
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
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)
