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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. Known for its colorful rock formations, Chinese media outlets have voted it one of China's most beautiful landforms. It became a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2019. [1]
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 .
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is part of a much larger 397.5 km 2 (153.5 sq mi) Wulingyuan Scenic Area. In 1992, Wulingyuan was officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [3] It was then approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources as Zhangjiajie Sandstone Peak Forest National Geopark (3,600 km 2 (1,400 sq mi