Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China
🇨🇳 Dunhuang is a county-level city in Northwestern Gansu Province, Western China. Dunhuang was a major stop on the ancient Silk Road and is best known for the nearby Mogao Caves. It has also been known at times as Shazhou and, in Uyghur, Dukhan. Dunhuang is situated in an oasis containing Crescent Lake and Mingsha Shan (鳴沙山, meaning "Singing-Sand Mountain"), named after the sound of the wind whipping off the dunes, the singing sand phenomenon. Dunhuang commands a strategic position at the crossroads of the ancient Southern Silk Route and the main road leading from India via Lhasa to Mongolia and Southern Siberia, and also controls the entrance to the narrow Hexi Corridor, which leads straight to the heart of the north Chinese plains and the ancient capitals of Chang'an (today known as Xi'an) and Luoyang.
Administratively, the county-level city of Dunhuang is part of the prefecture-level city of Jiuquan. Historically, the city and/or its surrounding region has also been known by the names Shazhou (prefecture of sand) or Guazhou (prefecture of melons). In the modern era, the two alternative names have been assigned respectively to Shazhou zhen (Shazhou town) which serves as Dunhuang's seat of government, and to the neighboring Guazhou County.
Asia/Shanghai/Gansu
Dunhuang has a population of over 186,027 people. Dunhuang also forms part of the wider Jiuquan Prefecture which has a population of over 1,153,988 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Dunhuang has links with:
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🇦🇲 Vagharshapat 40.173
🇮🇩 Banda Aceh 95.317
🇲🇲 Nay Pyi Taw 96.115
🇮🇩 Lhokseumawe 97.133
🇮🇩 Teluk Dalam 97.8
Locations Near: Dunhuang 94.6634,40.1373
🇨🇳 Jiayuguan 98.322,39.794 d: 314.1
🇨🇳 Jiuquan 98.494,39.733 d: 329.7
🇨🇳 Suzhou 98.503,39.741 d: 330.3
🇨🇳 Turpan 89.19,42.951 d: 552.5
🇨🇳 Xining 101.779,36.623 d: 732.7
🇨🇳 Ürümqi 87.6,43.817 d: 712.5
🇨🇳 Wuwei 102.638,37.929 d: 730.9
🇨🇳 Liangzhou 102.642,37.928 d: 731.3
Antipodal to: Dunhuang -85.337,-40.137
🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 18983.8
🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 18961.6
🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 18961.6
🇨🇱 San Pedro de la Paz -73.1,-36.833 d: 18889.6
🇨🇱 Concepción -73.05,-36.817 d: 18884.8
🇨🇱 Chiguayante -73.017,-36.917 d: 18886.3
🇨🇱 Temuco -72.667,-38.733 d: 18916.8
🇨🇱 Angol -72.25,-38.25 d: 18869.1
🇨🇱 Cauquenes -72.35,-35.967 d: 18788.6
🇨🇱 San Carlos -71.95,-36.417 d: 18777