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It covers 322 square kilometres (124 sq mi). The site became a quasi-national geopark on 23 April 2012 (provisional name: Zhangye Danxia Geopark). It was formally designated as "Zhangye National Geopark" by the Ministry of Land and Resources on 16 June 2016, after it passed the on-site acceptance test.
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Gansu [a] is a province in Northwestern China.Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province.The seventh-largest administrative district by area at 453,700 square kilometres (175,200 sq mi), Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia's Govi-Altai Province, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west ...
This list includes areas designated as "geopark" on the national level. This should not be confused with members of either the European Geoparks Network [ 1 ] or the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network .
Zhangye is located in central Gansu along the Hexi Corridor, occupying 42,000 km 2 (16,000 sq mi). It takes up the entire breadth of the province, running from Inner Mongolia on the north to Qinghai on the south, but its urban core is at Ganzhou in the oasis formed by the Ruo or Hei River.
Zhangye National Geopark This page was last edited on 28 March 2018, at 18:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Ganzhou District, formerly the separate city of Ganzhou or Kanchow, is a district in and the seat of the prefecture-level city of Zhangye in Gansu Province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and northeast.
Over millions of years the steep cliffs that can be seen today, exposed by faults, were formed through weathering and erosion. This geology can be seen at Danxiashan Geopark in China, where there is about 290 square kilometers of streams, forest and towering Danxian rock formations. [6]