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Lan-chou

Lan-chou is the alternative form of Lanzhou.

Meaning of Lanzhou

Proper noun

Lanzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Gansu, in northwestern China.
    • Construction of this expressway, linking Lanzhou with Wulumuchi, has continued further west as part of the central government’s attempt to equalize the balance of economic development between the prosperous east and the less developed western interior.2008, William Lindesay, The Great Wall Revisited: From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112

Origin of Lan-chou

From Mandarin 蘭州 /兰州 (Lánzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-chou¹.

Questions about Lan-chou

What is Lan-chou the alternative form of?
Lan-chou is the alternative form of Lanzhou.

Words near Lan-chou in the dictionary

  1. LAN parties
  2. LAN party
  3. Lan Tao
  4. Lan Tau
  5. Lan Xang
  6. Lan-chou
  7. Lan-t'ien
  8. Lan.
  9. lana
  10. lanadoxin
  11. lanafolein

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lan-chou (page history and authors); Lanzhou (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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