Gulang County () is a
county
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in central
Gansu province, the
People's Republic of China
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, bordering
Inner Mongolia
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to the northeast. It is under the administration of
Wuwei City. Its postal code is 733100, and its population in 2006 was 393,200 people. Located in the east of the
Hexi Corridor
The Hexi Corridor (, Xiao'erjing: حْسِ ظِوْلاْ, IPA: ), 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 rela ...
and to the south of the
Tengger Desert
The Tengger Desert or Tengri Desert ( mn, Тэнгэр цөл, ) is an arid natural region that covers about 36,700 km2 and is mostly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China.
The desert is expanding in size.Haner, Josh, et al. (24 O ...
, it borders
Jingtai County
Jingtai County () is a county in the middle of Gansu Province, bordering Inner Mongolia to the north. It is under the administration of Baiyin City and located at its northwest end. Covering an area of , it governs 8 towns and 3 townships, which ...
to the east,
Tianzhu County to the south,
Liangzhou District
Liangzhou District () is a district and the seat of the city of Wuwei, Gansu province of the People's Republic of China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the east.
Geography
Liangzhou District is located in east Hexi Corridor, north to the Qilian Mo ...
to the northwest, and Inner Mongolia's
Alxa Left Banner
Alxa Left Banner ( Mongolian: ''Alaša Jegün qosiɣu'', Cyrillic: Алшаа зүүн хошуу; ) is a banner (administrative division) in the southwest of Inner Mongolia, China. It borders the Republic of Mongolia's Ömnögovi Province to ...
to the northeast.
Geography
The county has a total area of
and . It features a
cold desert climate
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, with an annual mean temperature of and the annual evaporation of exceeding the annual precipitation of around ; annual sunshine duration is hours.
Climate
History
Evidence has been found of Gulang being inhabited 4000 years ago, during the
Neolithic
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.
Administrative divisions
Gulang County is divided to 15 towns and 4 townships.
;Towns
;Townships
Economy
The main economy is
agriculture
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, with 365600 people being employed in agriculture (92.98% of total population).
Transport
*
China National Highway 312
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Ethnic groups
Among the groups that live in Gulang are the
Han
Han may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group.
** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...
and
Hui
The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...
.
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 division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constitue ...
References
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External links
Official website (Chinese)*https://web.archive.org/web/20090504073433/http://www.gu-lang.com/ Lhasa Apsos Kennel Barcelona Spain - Tibet Apsos
Gulang County
Gulang County () is a county in central Gansu province, the People's Republic of China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northeast. It is under the administration of Wuwei City. Its postal code is 733100, and its population in 2006 was 393,200 peo ...
Wuwei, Gansu
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