1, Shaanxi Province, referred to as "Shaanxi" and "Qin" for short, its capital is an ancient capital.
2. Sichuan Province, referred to as "Sichuan" and "Shu" for short, with Chengdu as its capital.
3. Qinghai Province, referred to as "Qing", is the capital of Xining, and the whole province is on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Xinjiang is one of the five ethnic autonomous regions in China, and its capital is Urumqi.
5. Inner Mongolia, one of the five ethnic autonomous regions in China, is called "Mongolia" for short, and its capital is Hohhot.
6. Gansu Province is referred to as "Gan" or "Long" for short, and Lanzhou is the capital city.
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Gansu is located in the geographical center of the motherland, between 3211'-42 57' north latitude and 9213'-108 46' east longitude, with complex and diverse landforms, including mountains, plateaus, plains, river valleys, deserts and deserts.
Open the map and embed it in Gansu in the northwest of the motherland. It looks like a dumbbell in the northwest-southeast direction. East-west length 1655 km, north-south width of 530 km, the narrowest point is only 25 km.
Gansu is located at the intersection of eastern monsoon region, northwest arid region and Qinghai-Tibet alpine region. In the whole country, only Gansu has this feature.
At the same time, the vertical temperature zones in the middle temperate zone, the warm temperate zone, the subtropical zone and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are precisely the unique geographical location and different climatic and topographical conditions, which doomed Gansu to have a complex natural environment and diverse ecosystems.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Gansu