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Yuguan Township
Yuguan may refer to: *Yumen Pass or Yumenguan, frequently abbreviated as Yuguan (), pass on the Great Wall in Gansu * Yuguan Township (), subdivision of Hui County Hui County or Huixian () is a county under the administration of Longnan City, in the southeast of Gansu Province, China, bordering Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of ..., Gansu * Yuguan, Hebei (), town in and subdivision of Funing County, Hebei {{geodis ...
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Yumen Pass
Yumen Pass (; Uyghur: قاش قوۋۇق), or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate, is the name of a pass of the Great Wall located west of Dunhuang in today's Gansu Province of China. During the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220), this was a pass through which the Silk Road passed, and was the one road connecting Central Asia with East Asia (China), the former called the Western Regions. Just to the south was the Yangguan pass, which was also an important point on the Silk Road. These passes, along with other sites along the Silk Road, were inscribed in 2014 on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor World Heritage Site. The pass is at an elevation of 1400 meters. Etymology Although the Chinese ''guan'' is usually translated simply as "pass", its more specific meaning is a "frontier pass" to distinguish it from an ordinary pass through the mountains. ''Yumen guan'' 玉門關 and ''Yang guan'' 陽關 are derived from: ' ...
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Yuguan Township
Yuguan may refer to: *Yumen Pass or Yumenguan, frequently abbreviated as Yuguan (), pass on the Great Wall in Gansu * Yuguan Township (), subdivision of Hui County Hui County or Huixian () is a county under the administration of Longnan City, in the southeast of Gansu Province, China, bordering Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of ..., Gansu * Yuguan, Hebei (), town in and subdivision of Funing County, Hebei {{geodis ...
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Hui County
Hui County or Huixian () is a county under the administration of Longnan City, in the southeast of Gansu Province, China, bordering Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), N ... province to the south. The postal code is 742300. The population was in 1999. Administrative divisions Hui County is divided into 13 towns and 2 townships: ;Towns -Towns are upgraded from Township. ;Townships * Yushu Township () * Yuguan Township () Climate References {{authority control County-level divisions of Gansu Longnan ...
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