Longnan
Sign in to saveLongnan () is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Gansu province in China. It borders Sichuan on its south and Shaanxi on its east. As of the 2020 Chinese census, the population of the prefecture-level city was 2,407,272, of which 546,616 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Wudu District.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Longnan
- Settlement.native_name
- 陇南市
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh-Hans
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 鸡峰山国家森林公园.jpg
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- Location of Longnan Prefecture within Gansu (China).png
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- Location of Longnan City jurisdiction in Gansu
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- Gansu
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- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Gansu
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
- Settlement.seat
- Wudu District
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 27890
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Official website
陇南市人民政府
longnan.gov.cn →Link to the official site · 10,673 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 武都专区
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Gansu
- Contains
- Liangdang County
- Population
- 2407272
- Area
- 27838.66
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.longnan.gov.cn
- Image
- 徽县站.jpg
- Dialing code
- 939
- Licence plate code
- 甘K
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- 746000
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Encyclopedic overview
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Longnan () is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Gansu province in China. It borders Sichuan on its south and Shaanxi on its east. As of the 2020 Chinese census, the population of the prefecture-level city was 2,407,272, of which 546,616 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Wudu District.
==Geography and climate== Longnan is in southern Gansu province bordering Shaanxi in the east and Sichuan in the south. It is called Gansu's southern gateway and gateway to the northwest. The major geographic features in Longnan are the Qinba Mountains in the east, the Loess Plateau in the north, and the Tibetan Plateau in the west. It is part of the Central Han basin in the east and the Sichuan basin in the south. Elevations range from above sea level. The three major rivers in Longnan are the Bailong, the Baishui, and the Jialing. Besides these major rivers there are more than 3800 streams and creeks. The annual flow from all of these rivers and streams is more than 28 billion m3. The area of the prefecture is .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Longnan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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