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Kansu

Kansu is the obsolete spelling of Gansu.

Meaning of Gansu

Proper noun

Gansu

  1. A province in northwestern China. Capital: Lanzhou.
    • This is Lanzhou, the old Silk Road outpost that has matured into a metropolis of almost 4 million as the capital of Gansu province in China’s still-poor northwest. And as your lungs can attest, it is one of the most polluted cities in the country.2015 October 16, Matt O'Brien, “This is where China’s future will be decided.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2015, Wonkblog

Origin of Kansu

Borrowed from Mandarin 甘肅 /甘肃 (Gānsù).

Words formed from Kansu

Questions about Kansu

What is Kansu the obsolete spelling of?
Kansu is the obsolete spelling of Gansu.

Words near Kansu in the dictionary

  1. Kansases
  2. Kanses
  3. Kansk
  4. kansosamine
  5. Kanstantsin
  6. Kansu
  7. Kansu Corridor
  8. Kansu-Szechuan Time Zone
  9. Kansuh
  10. Kant
  11. kantar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kansu (page history and authors); Gansu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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