Liangzhou District () is a district and the seat of the city of
Wuwei,
Gansu
Gansu is a provinces of China, 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 , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...
province,
China
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, bordering
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...
to the east.
Geography
Liangzhou District is located in the eastern part of the
Hexi Corridor
The Hexi Corridor ( ), also known as the Gansu Corridor, is an important historical region located in the modern western Gansu province of China. It refers to a narrow stretch of traversable and relatively arable plain west of the Yellow River's O ...
, north of the
Qilian Mountains
The Qilian Mountains (), together with the Altyn-Tagh sometimes known as the Nan Shan, as it is to the south of the Hexi Corridor, is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains, forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of n ...
. It can be divided geographically into three main areas: the Qilian Mountains in the southwest, the Hexi Corridor in the center, and the
Alashan Plateau semi-desert
The Alashan Plateau semi-desert ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1302) covers the southwestern portion of the Gobi Desert where precipitation in the mountains is sufficient for a short part of the summer to support sparse plant life. The terrain is basin and ...
in the northeast. Liangzhou District is an agricultural oasis located in the
Shiyang River
The Shiyang River (石羊河), previously called the Gu River (谷水), flows through the eastern Hexi Corridor in China.
The catchment area of the Shiyang River covers about 41,600 km2, most of which lies within today's Wuwei prefecture-lev ...
() catchment area.
Administrative divisions
Liangzhou District is divided to 9 subdistricts, 37 towns and 2 others.
;Subdistricts
;Towns
;Others
* Jiuduntan Headquarters ()
* Dengmaying Lake Ecological Construction Headquarters ()
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Gansu
Gansu, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions.
Administrative divisions
These administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the People's Repub ...
*
Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)
Wang Wei (Traditional Chinese: 王維; Simplified Chinese: 王维, pinyin: ''Wáng Wéi'', 699–761) was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished men of arts ...
References
Official website (Chinese)
Liangzhou District
Liangzhou District () is a district and the seat of the city of Wuwei, Gansu province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the east.
Geography
Liangzhou District is located in the eastern part of the Hexi Corridor, north of the Qilian Mountains. ...
Wuwei, Gansu
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