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General Introduction
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Gansu in the upper Yellow River valley in northwest China was named after the first character of the names of its two ancient cities, Ganzhou (modern Zhangyi) and Suzhou (modern Jiuquan). Long and narrow in shape, it has an area of more than 450,000 square kilometers and a population of 19.18 million, of which 11 per cent live in the cities and the rest in the rural areas. Of its total population, 7.6 per cent are from the Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Mongolian, Tu, Yugur, Baoan and other minority nationalities.
(china.org.cn)
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