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    GANSU

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persiaplay

    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)

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