Zhangye
Zhangye (张掖 市) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern China's Gansu province. Your administrative region forms the centerpiece of the Hexi Corridor. It has an area of 40,874 km ² and approximately 1.28 million inhabitants ( end of 2004). In the east it borders the cities Wuwei and Jinchang, Jiayuguan and Jiuquan in the west, to the south and Qinghai Province in the north to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
In Zhangye is the temple of the Great Buddha ( Dafo Si) with the largest reclining Buddha statue in China.
Zhangye is composed of a city district, four counties and one autonomous district together. These are:
- City District Ganzhou (甘州区), 4240 km ², 500,000 inhabitants ( 2004), center, seat of the city government;
- Circle Minle (民乐 县), 3687 km ², 240,000 inhabitants (2004), capital: large village Hong Shui (洪水 镇);
- Circle magnification lens (临泽 县), 2777 km ², 150,000 inhabitants ( 2004), capital: greater community Shahe (沙河 镇);
- Circle Gaotai (高 台 县), 4312 km ², 160,000 inhabitants ( 2004), capital: greater community Chengguan (城关 镇);
- Circle Shandan (山丹 县), 5402 km ², 190,000 inhabitants ( 2004), capital: greater community Qingquan (清泉 镇);
- Autonomous County of Sunan Yugur (肃南 裕固族 自治县), 20,456 km ², 40,000 inhabitants ( 2004), capital: greater community Hongwansi (红 湾 寺镇).
Baiyin | Dingxi | Gannan | Jiayuguan | Jinchang | Jiuquan | Lanzhou | Linxia | Longnan | Pingliang | Qingyang | Tianshui | Wuwei | Zhangye
38.930556100.45Koordinaten: 38 ° 56 'N, 100 ° 27 ' E
- Place in Gansu
- District -free city (China)
- Million city