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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.
Camera location: View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap Captions. English. Badlands of the Zhangye National Geopark, Linze, Zhangye, Gansu, China ...
Zhangye Commandery was established by Western Han in 111 BC, with the seat at the site of modern Wuwei, Gansu. Etymology of Zhangye is unclear. A popular theory interprets the name Zhangye as "Extending Arm", excerpted from a phrase "to extend the arm of the country through to the Western Realm" (张国臂掖，以通西域) documented in Han ...
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 ...
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park; Zhangye National Geopark; Ziyuan National Geopark This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 08:02 (UTC). Text is ...
The Global Geoparks Network (GGN) (also known as the Global Network of National Geoparks) is UNESCO assisted network established in 1998. Managed under the body's Ecological and Earth Sciences Division, the GGN seeks the promotion and conservation of the planet's geological heritage, as well as encourages the sustainable research and development by the concerned communities.
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.